Reportedly embarked on cruise in suit (9)
I believe the answer is:
courtship
'suit' is the definition.
(I know that suit can be written as courtship)
'reportedly embarked on cruise in' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'in' could be 'hip' (both can mean fashionable) and 'hip' is found within the answer.
The remaining letters 'courts' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for courtship that I've seen before include "Attempt to win" , "pursuit" , "Period of wooing" , "judicial craft?" , "In prosecution of suit" .)