French city supporting Democrat's threats (7)
I believe the answer is:
dangers
'threats' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both states of affairs as well as being plural nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'french city supporting democrat's' is the wordplay.
'french city' becomes 'angers' (Angers is a city in France).
'supporting' says to put letters next to each other (in a down clue, some letters go below others).
'democrat' becomes 'd'.
'angers' put after 'd' is 'DANGERS'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for dangers that I've seen before include "Hazards" , "Perils" , "Gardens (anag.)" .)