Lied about speciality grocer (4)
I believe the answer is:
deli
'speciality grocer' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't understand how one could define the other.
'lied about' is the wordplay.
'about' is an anagram indicator.
'lied' is an anagram of 'DELI'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for deli that I've seen before include "Unusual food shop" , "Shop selling foreign foods" , "food-store?" , "Shop with unusual foods" , "shop briefly" .)