Article supporting move over East German writer (6)
I believe the answer is:
goethe
'german writer' is the definition.
(johann wolfgang von goethe)
'article supporting move over east' is the wordplay.
'article' becomes 'the' (the 'definite article' part of speech).
'supporting' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (in a down clue, some letters go below others).
'move over' becomes 'go' (going is a kind of moving. I am not sure about the 'over' bit.**).
'east' becomes 'e' ('E' can be a synonym of 'east').
'go'+'e'='goe'
'the' put after 'goe' is 'GOETHE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for goethe that I've seen before include "Eighteenth to nineteenth century German poet and dramatist (Faust)" , "Poet's" , "German poet, d. 1832" , "German author (Faust)" , "German playwright and poet" .)