Adolescent, embellishing gate containing three directions (7)
I believe the answer is:
teenage
'adolescent' is the definition.
(I know that adolescent can be written as teenage)
'embellishing gate containing three directions' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'directions' could be 'en' (east and north) and 'en' is found within the answer.
an anagram of 'gate' is 'teag' which is located in the remaining letters.
A single letter 'e' remains which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for teenage that I've seen before include "Youthful" , "Adolescent" , "Juvenile" , "13 to 19 years old" , "Relatively young" .)