One critical of French tower on farm? (9)
I believe the answer is:
detractor
'farm?' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't understand how one could define the other.
'one critical of french tower on' is the wordplay.
'one critical of french' becomes 'de' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'tower' becomes 'tractor' (I've seen this before).
'on' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'de'+'tractor'='DETRACTOR'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for detractor that I've seen before include "Critic" , "I make uncomplimentary remarks" , "One belittling" , "one responsible for mud flying around" , "one runs people down" .)