Heartlessly steal from the South's holiday hotspot (6)
I believe the answer is:
resort
'hotspot' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Perhaps they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'heartlessly steal from the south's holiday' is the wordplay.
'heartlessly' suggests removing the centre.
'steal' becomes 'rifle' (I've seen this before).
'from' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'the south's holiday' becomes 'sort' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'rifle' with its middle taken out is 're'.
're'+'sort'='RESORT'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for resort that I've seen before include "Put fresh order" , "About to arrange" , "Nice for one" , "Place for holidays" , "haunt" .)