Misled a trial, framing health resort as crafty (9)
I believe the answer is:
artisanal
'crafty' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'misled a trial framing health resort' is the wordplay.
'misled' indicates an anagram (I've seen 'misleading' mean this (I've seen this in other clues)).
'framing' is an insertion indicator (inserted letters are framed by the outside letters).
'health resort' becomes 'san' (I've seen this before).
'a'+'trial'='atrial'
'atrial' is an anagram of 'artial'.
'artial' placed around 'san' is 'ARTISANAL'.
'as' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for artisanal that I've seen is " like a skilled worker".)