Fruit thrown in drain by crazy guy (8)
I believe the answer is:
mandarin
'fruit' is the definition.
(I know that mandarin is a type of fruit)
'thrown in drain by crazy guy' is the wordplay.
'thrown in' indicates anagramming the letters (the letters must be thrown around).
'by' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'crazy guy' becomes 'man' (guy can informally mean a man. I am not sure about the 'crazy' bit.).
'drain' is an anagram of 'darin'.
'darin' put after 'man' is 'MANDARIN'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for mandarin that I've seen before include "Bigwig" , "Asiatic duck" , "High-ranking bureaucrat" , "Top civil servant" , "Fruity" .)