Maybe queen should have expensive French slip? (7)
I believe the answer is:
catcher
'slip?' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both acts as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'maybe queen should have expensive french' is the wordplay.
'maybe queen' becomes 'cat' (a queen is a female cat. I am not sure about the 'maybe' bit.).
'should have' says to put letters next to each other.
'expensive french' becomes 'cher' ('expensive' in French).
'cat'+'cher'='CATCHER'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for catcher that I've seen before include "Baseball player - in the rye?" , "Baseball fielder" , "J D Salinger write ''The . . . . . . . in the Rye''" , "booked in the rye" , "Famous Salinger novel ''The . . . . . . . In the Rye''" .)