Lead miner finally found in dilapidated toilet clutching two pieces of lead (5,4)
I believe the answer is:
title role
'lead' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'in dilapidated toilet clutching two pieces of lead' is the wordplay.
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'dilapidated' is an anagram indicator.
'clutching' indicates putting letters inside.
'two' becomes 'er' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'pieces of' says to take the initial letters.
The first letter of 'lead' is 'l'.
'toilet' with letters rearranged gives 'titloe'.
'titloe' placed around 'er' is 'titleroe'.
'titleroe' going around 'l' is 'TITLE-ROLE'.
'miner finally found' is the link.
This may not be right. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for title role that I've seen before include "Hamlet in Hamlet, say" , "Mother Courage, for example" , "Main part in film/play" , "Main part in play" , "taken by Lear amongst others" .)