Minister's brief for pilot ordered back from Sheremetyevo (9)
I believe the answer is:
portfolio
'minister's brief' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't understand how one could define the other.
'for pilot ordered back from sheremetyevo' is the wordplay.
'ordered' indicates anagramming the letters.
'back from' indicates one should take the final letters (the letter at the back of the word).
The final letter of 'sheremetyevo' is 'o'.
'for'+'pilot'='forpilot'
'forpilot' anagrammed gives 'portfoli'.
'portfoli'+'o'='PORTFOLIO'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for portfolio that I've seen before include "Set of collected pieces of creative work" , "Shares" , "responsibility of minister" , "Collection of papers" , "Carrying case for documents" .)