John organised a lot in the Ministry (6)
I believe the answer is:
milton
'the ministry' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'john organised a lot in' is the wordplay.
'john' becomes 'min' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'organised' indicates anagramming the letters.
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'lot' is an anagram of 'lto'.
'min' placed around 'lto' is 'MILTON'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for milton that I've seen before include "Blind poet of ` `Paradise Lost' '" , "Paradise Lost author" , "Comus poet" , "and 24: Town in Bucks" , "Great poet of 'Paradise Lost'" .)