Contrive to feed out duck to Daniel (5)
I believe the answer is:
defoe
'daniel' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'contrive to feed out duck' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'duck' could be 'o' (resembles zero - 'duck' in cricket) and 'o' is located in the answer.
an anagram of 'feed' is 'defe' which is located in the left over letters.
No letters remain.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'to' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for defoe that I've seen before include "Daniel ---, wrote Moll Flanders" , "Robinson Crusoe's creator, d. 1731" , "Daniel --, English novelist" , "Daniel . . . . . wrote ''Robinson Crusoe'' (5)" , "18th-century author" .)