Is she up from the village out West? (3)
I believe the answer is:
gal
'west?' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't see how one could define the other.
'is she up from the village out' is the wordplay.
'is she' becomes 'Ag'.
'up' shows that the letters should be reversed in order (in down clue: letters go upwards).
'from' says to put letters next to each other.
'the village out' becomes 'l' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'ag' back-to-front is 'ga'.
'ga'+'l'='GAL'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for gal that I've seen before include "female noted in Kalamazoo" , "miss" , "US female" , "An American girl, cowboy vintage" , "Broad" .)