Scandinavian chap raised one in the Washington area (6)
I believe the answer is:
nordic
'scandinavian' is the definition.
(I know that scandinavian can be written as Nordic)
'chap raised one in the washington area' is the wordplay.
'chap' becomes 'ron' (short for Ronald).
'raised' says the letters should be written backwards (going up in a down clue).
'one in the washington area' becomes 'dic' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'ron' written backwards gives 'nor'.
'nor'+'dic'='NORDIC'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for nordic that I've seen before include "Race of people in Scandinavia" , "Finnish/Scandinavian" , "Perhaps blonde" , "'Of Scandinavia, Finland and Iceland (6)'" , "Of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland" .)