Pale drunk wrapped up in winter month with gas burner? (8)
I believe the answer is:
jalapeno
'burner?' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot understand how they can define each other.
'pale drunk wrapped up in winter month with gas' is the wordplay.
'drunk' indicates anagramming the letters.
'wrapped up in' is an insertion indicator.
'winter month' becomes 'Jan' (short for January).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'gas' becomes 'O' (chemical symbol for oxygen).
'pale' anagrammed gives 'lape'.
'lape' put inside 'jan' is 'jalapen'.
'jalapen'+'o'='JALAPENO'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for jalapeno that I've seen before include "something really hot" , "Green chilli pepper used in Mexican cooking" , "Hot green chilli" , "Variety of chilli" , "Hot type of capsicum pepper" .)