Doing article connected with Lilliputian novel (2-2-3-6)
I believe the answer is:
up-to-the-minute
'novel' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Perhaps they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'doing article connected with lilliputian' is the wordplay.
'doing' becomes 'upto' (as in 'what are you up to?').
'article' becomes 'the' (the definite article).
'connected with' says to put letters next to each other.
'lilliputian' becomes 'minute' (I've seen this before).
'upto'+'the'+'minute'='UP-TO-THE-MINUTE'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for up-to-the-minute that I've seen before include "Right now" , "Incorporating the very latest developments" , "Current" , "Extremely modern" , "Tie up the mount? (anag)" .)