Beat cake, adding our nuts? (7)
I believe the answer is:
kerouac
'beat' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'cake adding our nuts?' is the wordplay.
'adding' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'nuts?' is an anagram indicator (nuts can mean crazy).
'cake'+'our'='cakeour'
'cakeour' with letters rearranged gives 'KEROUAC'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for kerouac that I've seen before include "Jack, iconic novelist" , "Cooked" , "WRITER" , "Jack -, US beat novelist (On the Road)" , "Leading figure of the beat generation in the US" .)