Found this cryptic clue within the #1 Times fast cryptic ebook. I obtained it for Xmas so I might graduate to some extra difficult cryptic puzzles than the garbage you see within the mass market ones although, if that is the fast Times one, I’m dreading the traditional one I additionally obtained :-).

I’ve the reply however I do not perceive the total course of. The clue is:

Herb geese hugging ungrateful daughter (7).

My (incomplete) course of is hidden beneath in case you wish to method it “clear”.

The “geese hugging” bit …

… is clearly “begins and finish with O“.

That leads me to the answer …

… “OREGANO”, the herb.

But I’m unsure of the second path to the reply …

… how the rest of the clue, “ungrateful daughter” provides the inner letters “REGAN”. Those letters are in “ungrateful” however that would go away “UTFUL” and I’m unsure methods to eliminate these with “daughter”.