American princess wants a new house hidden away (7)
I believe the answer is:
idahoan
'american' is the definition.
(I know that Idahoan is a type of american)
'princess wants a new house hidden away' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'princess' could be 'ida' (Princess Ida is a Gilbert and Sullivan opera) and 'ida' is found within the answer.
'a' could be 'an' and 'an' is found within the answer.
'house' could be 'ho' (abbreviation for house) and 'ho' is present in the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for idahoan that I've seen before include "man in a state?" , "Citizen of Boise, perhaps" , "from a certain state" , "from Boise, say" .)