After leaving university, most vocal individual is centre of attraction? (9)
I believe the answer is:
lodestone
'centre of attraction?' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'after leaving university most vocal individual' is the wordplay.
'after leaving' indicates named letters should be taken away.
'university' becomes 'u'.
'most vocal' becomes 'loudest' ('loud' can be similar in meaning to 'vocal').
'individual' becomes 'one'.
'loudest' with 'u' taken away is 'lodest'.
'lodest'+'one'='LODESTONE'
'is' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for lodestone that I've seen before include "Mineral" , "Piece of magnetic iron ore" , "Natural magnetic ore" , "Naturally magnetic rock" , "Magnet" .)