Minister coming from bombed site surrounded by crowd (9)
I believe the answer is:
priestess
'minister coming' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?
'bombed site surrounded by crowd' is the wordplay.
'bombed' indicates anagramming the letters.
'surrounded by' is an insertion indicator.
'crowd' becomes 'press' (press is a kind of crowd**).
'site' is an anagram of 'iest'.
'iest' placed inside 'press' is 'PRIESTESS'.
'from' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for priestess that I've seen before include "Woman conducting religious rites" , "Female religious officiant" , "Female hierophant" , "Female leading rituals" , "Officiator" .)