Goes around empty palace with King and surveyors (7)
I believe the answer is:
peepers
'surveyors' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being plural nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'goes around empty palace with king' is the wordplay.
'goes' becomes 'pees' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'around' is an insertion indicator.
'empty' suggests removing the centre.
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'king' becomes 'R' (abbreviation of Latin rex).
'palace' with its middle taken out is 'pe'.
'pe'+'r'='per'
'pees' enclosing 'per' is 'PEEPERS'.
'and' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for peepers that I've seen before include "They look" , "sound like young birds" .)