Face the other way to receive King and Northern nobleman (5)
I believe the answer is:
laird
'northern nobleman' is the definition.
'laird' can be an answer for 'nobleman' (thesaurus). I am not certain of the 'northern' bit.
'face the other way to receive king' is the wordplay.
'face' becomes 'dial' (face of a clock).
'the other way' says the letters should be written backwards.
'to receive' indicates putting letters inside.
'king' becomes 'R' (abbreviation for rex, king in Latin).
'dial' back-to-front is 'laid'.
'laid' placed around 'r' is 'LAIRD'.
'and' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for laird that I've seen before include "Estate landowner" , "Man owning land" , "Scottish owner of large estate" , "Scot. landowner" , "Scottish landowner" .)