Number of women? Try to elaborate (5-3)
I believe the answer is:
forty-two
'number' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't judge whether this works.
'of women? try to elaborate' is the wordplay.
'women?' becomes 'w' (standard abbreviation).
'elaborate' indicates an anagram (an elaborate version of the letters).
'of'+'w'+'try'+'to'='ofwtryto'
'ofwtryto' anagrammed gives 'FORTY-TWO'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for forty-two that I've seen before include "Three fourteens" , "Douglas Adams' numerical Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything" , "The answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything (Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy)" .)