Leaders from the Senate meeting a Republican authority figure (4)
I believe the answer is:
tsar
'authority figure' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?
'leaders from the senate meeting a republican' is the wordplay.
'leaders from' says to take the initial letters.
'meeting' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'republican' becomes 'R' (abbreviation).
The first letters of 'the senate' is 'ts'.
'ts'+'a'+'r'='TSAR'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for tsar that I've seen before include "Despot" , "Russian ruler (S, not Z)" , "Rats (anag)" , "Old leader" , "Russian leader" .)