Linked thing about one English paper's leader (9)
I believe the answer is:
chieftain
'linked thing' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot understand how they can define each other.
'about one english paper's leader' is the wordplay.
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'one' becomes 'i' (Roman numeral).
'english' becomes 'E' (abbreviation).
'paper' becomes 'FT' (newspaper the FT, Financial Times).
'leader' becomes 'chain' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'i'+'e'+'ft'='ieft'
'ieft' put into 'chain' is 'CHIEFTAIN'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for chieftain that I've seen before include "Head of a clan" , "Clan leader" , "Tribe's leader" , "Tribal chief" , "Head of tribe" .)