Evangelist is dull coming to the point (7)
I believe the answer is:
matthew
'evangelist' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'dull coming to the point' is the wordplay.
'dull' becomes 'mat' ('mat' can be similar in meaning to 'dull'**).
'coming to' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'point' becomes 'w' (W is an example).
'mat'+'the'+'w'='MATTHEW'
'is' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for matthew that I've seen before include "Arnold, for example" , ". . . . . . ., Mark, Luke and John (7)" , "Good writer" , "He's a saint" , "This chap" .)