Michael and Fay going round the academy (7)
I believe the answer is:
faraday
'michael' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'fay going round the academy' is the wordplay.
'going round' is an insertion indicator (some letters go around others).
'the academy' becomes 'rada' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'fay' placed around 'rada' is 'FARADAY'.
'and' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for faraday that I've seen before include "unit" , "Michael -, nineteenth century English physicist and chemist" , "English physicist and chemist, d. 1867" , "Scientist" , "Man of note" .)