Like a piper – or four-and-twenty blackbirds? (4)
I believe the answer is:
pied
'like' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Perhaps they are linked in a way I don't understand?
I don't understand the remainder of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for pied that I've seen before include "Foot over water [in]" , "black and white" , "varying in colour" , "With patches coloured differently" , "Piper thus portrayed once" .)