College to steer away from artificial stuff (9)
I believe the answer is:
polyester
'artificial stuff' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'college to steer away' is the wordplay.
'college' becomes 'poly' (polytechnic).
'to' says to put letters next to each other.
'away' is an anagram indicator (letters move away from their original places).
'steer' is an anagram of 'ester'.
'poly'+'ester'='POLYESTER'
'from' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for polyester that I've seen before include "Synthetic fibre or substance" , "material found in fabrics" , "Synthetic textile" , "Turn to Presley for the synthetic fabric" , "Synthetic compound" .)