Hot spot not opening, as is web? (4)
I believe the answer is:
oven
'hot spot' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)
'not opening as is web?' is the wordplay.
'not opening' means to remove the first letter (the opening letter is removed).
'as' becomes 'so' (I've seen this in other clues).
'is web?' becomes 'ven' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'so' with its first letter taken away is 'o'.
'o'+'ven'='OVEN'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for oven that I've seen before include "Kitchen range, say" , "Furnace, kiln" , "You can cook in this" , "Kiln, perhaps" , "Kiln, cooker" .)