Half of Stilgoe's Bitter ordered for Tim Rice? (10)
I believe the answer is:
librettist
'tim rice?' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't see how they can define each other.
'half of stilgoe's bitter ordered' is the wordplay.
'half of' suggests halving the letters.
'ordered' indicates an anagram.
'stilgoes' with half the letters taken is 'stil'.
'stil'+'bitter'='stilbitter'
'stilbitter' anagrammed gives 'LIBRETTIST'.
'for' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for librettist that I've seen before include "Provider of opera's words" , "Deviser of book" .)