Complex issue in question: board meeting with anger (8)
I believe the answer is:
quagmire
'complex' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot see how they can define each other.
'in question board meeting with anger' is the wordplay.
'in question board' becomes 'qu' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'meeting' becomes 'AGM' (annual general meeting in a company).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'anger' becomes 'ire' (ire is intense rage).
'qu'+'agm'+'ire'='QUAGMIRE'
'issue' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for quagmire that I've seen before include "Area of soft boggy land" , "problematic situation" , "Here one is bogged down" , "You can get bogged down in this" , "difficult situation" .)