Broken nose I'd given to the inventor (6)
I believe the answer is:
edison
'the inventor' is the definition.
(Edison is an example)
'broken nose i'd given' is the wordplay.
'broken' is an anagram indicator.
'given' says to put letters next to each other.
'nose' after 'id' is 'idnose'.
'idnose' anagrammed gives 'EDISON'.
'to' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for edison that I've seen before include "US inventor of over 1,000 devices" , "Inventor's" , "US scientist/inventor" , "He came up with microphone" , "inventive sort" .)