Advance of man-eater in embrace sharing sweetheart (8)
I believe the answer is:
progress
'embrace sharing sweetheart' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both acts as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'advance of man-eater' is the wordplay.
'advance of' becomes 'pr' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'man-eater' becomes 'ogress' (I've seen this before).
'pr'+'ogress'='PROGRESS'
'in' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for progress that I've seen before include "Move forward" , "Advance - promotion" , "Course" , "Go on - journey" , "Satisfactory development" .)