Stand up to royal women in reversal (5)
I believe the answer is:
tower
'stand up' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'to royal women in reversal' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'to' is present in the answer.
'royal' could be 'er' (abbreviation for Elizabeth Regina) and 'er' is found within the answer.
'women' could be 'w' (standard abbreviation) and 'w' is present in the answer.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for tower that I've seen before include "See 4 Down" , "Monument" , "One to pull" , "Campanile, spire etc" , "Minaret, for example" .)