One great singer cut short as victim of aerial tragedy (6)
I believe the answer is:
icarus
'one great singer cut' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.
'short as victim of aerial tragedy' is the wordplay.
'short' means to remove the last letter.
'as' becomes 'in' (I've seen this in other clues).
'victim of aerial tragedy' becomes 'carus' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'in' with its last letter removed is 'i'.
'i'+'carus'='ICARUS'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for icarus that I've seen before include "Son of Daedalus, who flew too close to the sun" , "Mythical Greek who flew too close to the sun - oops!" , "Ill-fated flier of myth" , "Ill-fated flyer of myth" , "In Greek myth, he flew too close to the sun and died" .)