French painter returning mid-morning? (5)
I believe the answer is:
manet
'french painter' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'returning mid-morning?' is the wordplay.
'returning' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'mid' becomes 'ten' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'morning?' becomes 'am'.
'ten'+'am'='tenam'
'tenam' back-to-front is 'MANET'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for manet that I've seen before include "artistic individual" , "Painter of Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe, d. 1883" , "Edouard -- (artist)" , "Olympia artist" , "Edouard - - (painter)" .)