Figure without a jack-of-all-trades (2-3)
I believe the answer is:
do-all
'figure' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'without a jack-of-all-trades' is the wordplay.
'without' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'jack-of-all-trades' becomes 'doll' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'a' inserted inside 'doll' is 'DO-ALL'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for do-all that I've seen is " Try one's hardest".)