Detective to cry over extreme temperatures (5)
I believe the answer is:
bosch
'detective' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Perhaps they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'cry over extreme temperatures' is the wordplay.
'cry' becomes 'sob' (sobbing is a kind of crying).
'over' is a reversal indicator.
'extreme temperatures' becomes 'ch' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'sob' reversed gives 'bos'.
'bos'+'ch'='BOSCH'
'to' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for bosch that I've seen before include "Hieronymous -----, Dutch painter" , "Hieronymus --, Flemish painter" , "Hieronymus ____, 14th century Dutch painter" , "Dutch painter of The Garden of Earthly Delights, d. 1516" , "Dutch painter, Hieronymus, d. 1516" .)