Drunk vintner swallows nothing produced by pioneer? (8)
I believe the answer is:
inventor
'by pioneer?' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'drunk vintner swallows nothing' is the wordplay.
'drunk' indicates an anagram.
'swallows' is an insertion indicator.
'nothing' becomes 'o' (looks like zero - 0).
'vintner' with letters rearranged gives 'inventr'.
'inventr' placed around 'o' is 'INVENTOR'.
'produced' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for inventor that I've seen before include "Person originally making" , "Creator of something new" , "Creative person" , "The first one to make something" , "Author" .)