Interfering editor seldom bothered author (10)
I believe the answer is:
meddlesome
'interfering' is the definition.
(synonyms)
'editor seldom bothered author' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'editor' could be 'ed' and 'ed' is located in the answer.
an anagram of 'seldom' is 'mdleso' which is within the remaining letters.
'author' could be 'me' (the author of the crossword) and 'me' is present in the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for meddlesome that I've seen before include "nosy?" , "Interfering" .)