Married without honour, wife leaves to get hammered? (8)
I believe the answer is:
embedded
'hammered?' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with contact as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'married without honour wife leaves to get' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'married' could be 'm' (abbreviation, e.g. in genealogy) and 'm' is found within the answer.
'honour' could be 'edd' (EdD is an example) and 'edd' is present in the answer.
'get' could be 'be' ('get' can mean 'come to be') and 'be' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'ed' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for embedded that I've seen before include "Inserted as an integral part, journalist with a military unit during a conflict, say" , "Deeply implanted" , "Set in" , "Became fixed" , "Firmly implanted" .)