From Somerset, he’d taken the daughter in the car (7)
I believe the answer is:
cheddar
'from somerset he'd taken the daughter in the car' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't understand how one could define the other.
'he'd taken the daughter in the car' is the wordplay.
'taken' says to put letters next to each other.
'the daughter' becomes 'd'.
'in the' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'hed'+'d'='hedd'
'hedd' going into 'car' is 'CHEDDAR'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for cheddar that I've seen before include "Type of cheese" , "Hard cheese" , "English cheese variety" , "Mendip gorge" , "part of ploughman's lunch" .)