Poor Elon Musk, endlessly receiving international wall-to-wall coverage? (8)
I believe the answer is:
emulsion
'wall-to-wall coverage?' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't understand how they can define each other.
'poor elon musk endlessly receiving international' is the wordplay.
'poor' indicates anagramming the letters.
'endlessly' means to remove the last letter.
'receiving' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'international' becomes 'i' (abbreviation eg in IMF).
'elon'+'musk'='elonmusk'
'elonmusk' with its last letter taken off is 'elonmus'.
'elonmus' anagrammed gives 'emulson'.
'emulson' enclosing 'i' is 'EMULSION'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for emulsion that I've seen before include "Wall paint" , "Type of paint" , "Mixture involving two liquids which do not readily combine" , "Mixture of insoluble liquids" .)