Name the Italian in the SAS (5)
I believe the answer is:
silas
'name' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'the italian in the sas' is the wordplay.
'the italian' becomes 'il' ('the' in Italian).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'il' placed into 'sas' is 'SILAS'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for silas that I've seen before include "-- Wegg (Dickens, OMF)" , "Forename of miser" , "Weaver" , "' - - Marner' (lit.)" , "Leader of the Jerusalem Church in Acts and Paul's companion" .)