Doctor "my sly healer" for novelist (4,7)
I believe the answer is:
mary shelley
'novelist' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't judge whether it can be defined by this definition.
'doctor my sly healer' is the wordplay.
'doctor' indicates an anagram.
'my'+'sly'+'healer'='myslyhealer'
'myslyhealer' is an anagram of 'MARY SHELLEY'.
'for' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for mary shelley that I've seen is " Frankenstein's creator".)
I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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