"Daniel Deronda" novelist (5)
I believe the answer is:
eliot
'daniel deronda novelist' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)
This is all the clue.
(Other definitions for eliot that I've seen before include "Pseudonymous writer" , "Middlemarch author" , "Four Quartets poet" , "See 14" , "The Waste Land author" .)