Eden regularly snubbed kindly old liberal (5)
I believe the answer is:
idyll
'eden' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't understand how they can define each other.
'regularly snubbed kindly old liberal' is the wordplay.
'regularly snubbed' means one should take alternating letters (letters removed at regular intervals).
'liberal' becomes 'l' (abbreviation).
'kindly'+'old'='kindlyold'
The alternating letters of 'kindlyold' are 'idyl'.
'idyl'+'l'='IDYLL'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for idyll that I've seen before include "Scene of rural happiness" , "Blissful period" , "Happy peaceful scene" , "Short pastoral poem" , "Pastoral story" .)