Performer able to read out a couple of letters (6)
I believe the answer is:
dancer
'performer' is the definition.
(I know that dancer is a type of performer)
'able to read out a couple of letters' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'a' could be 'an' and 'an' is present in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for dancer that I've seen before include "See 25" , "Fred Astaire, say" , "Terpsichorean" , "One moves to music" , "One in the same team as, say, Rudolf" .)