A temperance advocate and a pain, at the embassy? (7)
I believe the answer is:
attache
'embassy?' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'a temperance advocate and a pain at the' is the wordplay.
'a temperance advocate' becomes 'at' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'a pain' becomes 'ache' (ache is a kind of pain).
'at' says to put letters next to each other (I've seen this in other clues).
'the' becomes 't' (the is pronounced as a 't' sound in some dialects).
'ache' put after 't' is 'tache'.
'at'+'tache' is 'ATTACHE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for attache that I've seen before include "Small rectangular document case" , "Embassy worker" , "Tea chat (anag.)" , "Embassy official" , "That ace (anag.)" .)