Author first to go on about "a poor player” (7)
I believe the answer is:
grahame
'author' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'first to go on about a poor player' is the wordplay.
'first to' suggests taking the first letters.
'on' becomes 're' ('on' can be mean 'with reference to').
'about' indicates putting letters inside.
'poor player' becomes 'ham' (ham is a kind of player. I am not sure about the 'poor' bit.).
The first letter of 'go' is 'g'.
'a'+'ham'='aham'
're' going around 'aham' is 'rahame'.
'g'+'rahame'='GRAHAME'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for grahame that I've seen before include "novelist" , "Kenneth - - , Scottish author" , "Kenneth --, The Wind in the Willows author" , "See 3" , "Kenneth - - (deviser of Mr Toad)" .)
