Sleeping party worker takes room inside (7)
I believe the answer is:
dormant
'sleeping' is the definition.
(synonyms)
'party worker takes room inside' is the wordplay.
'party' becomes 'do' (do is a kind of party).
'worker' becomes 'ant' (worker is a type of ant).
'takes' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'room inside' becomes 'rm' (I've seen this in other clues. I am not sure about the 'inside' bit.).
'do'+'ant'='doant'
'doant' placed around 'rm' is 'DORMANT'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for dormant that I've seen before include "In deep sleep" , "Lying inactive as if in sleep" , "Suspended" , "Mordant about lying inactive" , "Deeply sleeping" .)