Attractive person left to embrace woman in tangle (8)
I believe the answer is:
dishevel
'tangle' is the definition.
('dishevel' can be a synonym of 'tangle')
'attractive person left to embrace woman' is the wordplay.
'attractive person' becomes 'dish' (I've seen this before).
'left' becomes 'l' (common abbreviation).
'to embrace' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'woman' becomes 'eve' (Eve is an example).
'dish'+'l'='dishl'
'dishl' placed around 'eve' is 'DISHEVEL'.
'in' is the link.
(Other definitions for dishevel that I've seen before include "Disarrange - rumple" , "Make untidy" , "Get ruffled" , "Ruffle (e.g. hair)" , "Disorder, ruffle" .)