### Clue: Abroad a certain director encapsulating predicament is without rival (11)
### Answer: UNSURPASSED 
 ### Explanation: Definition: without rival
 UN(French, a language abroad, for the article "a") + SURE(certain/doubtless) + D(abbrev. for "director") **containing**(encapsulating) PASS(a predicament/a difficult situation, as in "things have come to a pretty pass now that Parliament has voted against …".