Associate of Arthur held after party (7)
I believe the answer is:
galahad
'party' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'associate of arthur held after' is the wordplay.
'associate of arthur' becomes 'gala' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'held' becomes 'had' ('have' can be a synonym of 'hold').
'after' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'gala'+'had'='GALAHAD'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for galahad that I've seen before include "The most virtuous knight at the Arthurian Round Table" , "One of Arthur's knights" , "Noblest of King Arthur's knights" , "extremely honourable man" , "Person of great nobility" .)