Individual in The Sun gets played by musician (5)
I believe the answer is:
sitar
'played by musician' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't understand how one could define the other.
'individual in the sun' is the wordplay.
'individual' becomes 'i'.
'in the' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'sun' becomes 'star' (I've seen this before).
'i' inserted within 'star' is 'SITAR'.
'gets' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for sitar that I've seen before include "Large Indian lute" , "music producer" , "Lasting from morning to night" , "Plucked instrument" , "Indian musical instrument like long-necked lute" .)