With the female coming in, the old man made haste (6)
I believe the answer is:
dashed
'made haste' is the definition.
(dash can mean to rush or make haste)
'with the female coming in the old man' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'female' could be 'she' ('she' refers to a woman) and 'she' is present in the answer.
'man' could be 'dad' (I have seen 'Old man' mean 'dad' so perhaps 'man' could also mean 'dad') and 'dad' is present in the remaining letters.
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 dashed that I've seen before include "Cast down as hopes may be" , "Threw down or ran fast" , "Jolly" , "Moved very quickly or hastily" , "hurled at" .)