Mother drinks dodgy retsina - typical (10)
I believe the answer is:
mainstream
'mother drinks dodgy retsina typical' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.
'mother drinks dodgy retsina' is the wordplay.
'mother' becomes 'mam' (informal term for mother).
'drinks' means one lot of letters goes inside another (inserted letters are consumed or drunk).
'dodgy' indicates anagramming the letters (a dodgy or wrong order of the letters).
'retsina' anagrammed gives 'instrea'.
'mam' placed around 'instrea' is 'MAINSTREAM'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for mainstream that I've seen before include "Relating to what is normal or standard" , "People representing most common ideas" , "Current" , "conventional activities" , "Conventional, normal" .)