Cover needed for vehicle to carry round orchestra (7)
I believe the answer is:
carport
'cover needed for vehicle' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'carry round orchestra' is the wordplay.
'carry' becomes 'cart' (carting is a kind of carrying).
'round' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'orchestra' becomes 'rpo' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'cart' placed around 'rpo' is 'CARPORT'.
'to' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for carport that I've seen before include "place to park vehicle" , "off-road parking" , "Leave your motor here!" , "makeshift garage" , "Vehicle shelter" .)