A road takes you back through streets of dreamy, romantic stuff (8)
I believe the answer is:
stardust
'dreamy romantic stuff' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both human attributes as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'a road takes you back through streets' is the wordplay.
'road' becomes 'rd' (abbreviation).
'takes' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'back' says to take the final letters (the letter at the back).
'through' is an insertion indicator (inserted letters go through the word).
'streets' becomes 'st st' (the abbreviation for street repeated).
The final letter of 'you' is 'u'.
'a'+'rd'+'u'='ardu'
'ardu' going into 'stst' is 'STARDUST'.
'of' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for stardust that I've seen before include "In Woodstock we are this" , "Singer < and song" , "that could blind one to reality" , "Imaginary particles blinding someone to reality" .)