Letters illuminated with tare and rue interwoven (10)
I believe the answer is:
literature
'letters' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'illuminated with tare and rue interwoven' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'illuminated' could be 'lit' (synonyms) and 'lit' is located in the answer.
an anagram of 'tare' is 'erat' which is located in the answer.
an anagram of 'rue' is 'ure' which is located in the answer.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for literature that I've seen before include "Written material" , "promotional material" , "fliers" , "Creative writing" , "Written works of artistic merit" .)