Man dancing in leotard encapsulates daring (4-7)
I believe the answer is:
lion-hearted
'daring' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'man dancing in leotard encapsulates' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'man' could be 'lion' and 'lion' is found within the answer.
The remaining letters 'hearted' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for lion-hearted that I've seen before include "Courageous" , "Brave, determined" .)