Miser pinches rolls round here intermittently (9)
I believe the answer is:
nipcheese
'miser' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'pinches rolls round here intermittently' is the wordplay.
'rolls' indicates anagramming the letters (letters move or roll into new positions).
'round' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'intermittently' means one should take alternating letters.
The alternating letters of 'here' are 'ee'.
'pinches' with letters rearranged gives 'nipchse'.
'nipchse' placed around 'ee' is 'NIPCHEESE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for nipcheese that I've seen is " Skinflint".)