Composer takes modern centre conveyance on the outskirts of Sydney (7)
I believe the answer is:
debussy
'composer' is the definition.
(Claude Debussy)
'modern centre conveyance on the outskirts of sydney' is the wordplay.
'modern centre conveyance' becomes 'debus' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'on' says to put letters next to each other.
'the outskirts of' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters) (only letters on the outskirts).
'sydney' with its middle taken out is 'sy'.
'debus'+'sy'='DEBUSSY'
'takes' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for debussy that I've seen before include "Clair de Lune composer" , "Note-writer" , "Claude -, Fr. composer" , "Claude, impressionist composer" , "Claude -, C. nineteen-twenty French composer" .)