Police finally after father who released a bull (4)
I believe the answer is:
pope
'police finally after father who released a bull' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't understand how they can define each other.
'police finally after father' is the wordplay.
'finally' indicates one should take the final letters.
'after' says to put letters next to each other.
'father' becomes 'pop' (pop is a kind of father).
The last letter of 'police' is 'e'.
'e' after 'pop' is 'POPE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for pope that I've seen before include "Writer" , "church leader in Rome" , "freshwater fish" , "Poet - religious leader" , "author" .)