Authoritarian post office upset by journalists with extreme odour (9)
I believe the answer is:
oppressor
'authoritarian' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'post office upset by journalists with extreme odour' is the wordplay.
'post office' becomes 'po' (abbreviation).
'upset' is a reversal indicator.
'by journalists' becomes 'press' (the press can mean the newspaper industry. I am not sure about the 'by' bit.).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'extreme' means to remove the middle letters.
'odour' with its centre removed is 'or'.
'po' in reverse letter order is 'op'.
'op'+'press'+'or'='OPPRESSOR'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for oppressor that I've seen before include "Tyrant" , "Persecutor of proposers" , "Despot" , "Proposers for one who persecutes" , "One who keeps another in subjection" .)