Fielding's terms for material including Tom Jones? (9)
I believe the answer is:
slipcover
'tom jones?' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'fielding's terms for material' is the wordplay.
'fielding's terms' becomes 'cover' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'for' means one lot of letters go next to another (I've seen this in other clues).
'material' becomes 'slip' (slip is a kind of material).
'cover' after 'slip' is 'SLIPCOVER'.
'including' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for slipcover that I've seen is " Jacket needed".)