Detective on Californian ship gets nothing on artist (7)
I believe the answer is:
picasso
'artist' is the definition.
(Picasso is an example)
'detective on californian ship gets nothing' is the wordplay.
'detective' becomes 'PI' (private investigator).
'on californian ship' becomes 'cass' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'gets' says to put letters next to each other.
'nothing' becomes 'O' (O resembles 0).
'pi'+'cass'+'o'='PICASSO'
'on' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for picasso that I've seen before include "As cop is a Spanish painter" , "Spanish cubist painter" , "Spanish artist, 1881-1973" , "pioneer of Cubism" , "Pablo . . . . . . ., great Spanish artist of 20th century" .)