Olympian gold finally given to noisy crude American (8)
I believe the answer is:
dionysus
'olympian' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?
'gold finally given to noisy crude american' is the wordplay.
'finally' suggests the final letters.
'given to' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'crude' indicates anagramming the letters.
'american' becomes 'us' (United States).
The last letter of 'gold' is 'd'.
'noisy' anagrammed gives 'ionys'.
'd' inserted within 'ionys' is 'dionys'.
'dionys'+'us'='DIONYSUS'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for dionysus that I've seen before include "Greek god (Bacchus is his Roman equivalent)" , "Greek god of wine and creativity" , "Wine-god" , "Greek god of wine and good times" , "Greek god of wine and fertility, also known as Bacchus" .)