Muppet series holds place for a movie star (7,7)
I believe the answer is:
charlie chaplin
'movie star' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'muppet series holds place for a' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'place' could be 'lie' (lie is a kind of place) and 'lie' is located in the answer.
'a' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for charlie chaplin that I've seen before include "The Tramp, commonly" , "comedian" , "funny man" .)