Weird old man smuggled medium parts for use in trap (10)
I believe the answer is:
paranormal
'weird' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'old man smuggled medium parts for use in trap' is the wordplay.
'old man' becomes 'pa' (both can mean someone's father).
'smuggled medium parts' becomes 'normal' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'for' says to put letters next to each other (I've seen this in other clues).
'use in' indicates the central letters (I've seen 'used in' mean this (the letters used on the inside of the word)).
The centre of 'trap' is 'ra'.
'normal' after 'ra' is 'ranormal'.
'pa'+'ranormal'='PARANORMAL'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for paranormal that I've seen before include "mystic" , "Scientifically inexplicable" , "Supernatural" , "Beyond scientific understanding" , "on a higher plane?" .)