A promise I broke around first of rules -- fair boss? (10)
I believe the answer is:
impresario
'fair boss?' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'a promise i broke around first of rules' is the wordplay.
'broke' indicates anagramming the letters.
'around' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'first of' says to take the initial letters.
The first letter of 'rules' is 'r'.
'a'+'promise'+'i'='apromisei'
'apromisei' is an anagram of 'impesario'.
'impesario' placed around 'r' is 'IMPRESARIO'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for impresario that I've seen before include "Stage promoter" , "Perhaps the Met's manager" , "theatre director" , "Entertainment manager" , "Sponsor and manager of public entertainments" .)