Pound has a good reputation, like George Eliot? (3,4)
I believe the answer is:
pen name
'george eliot?' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'pound has a good reputation' is the wordplay.
'pound' becomes 'pen' (both can mean an animal enclosure).
'has' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'a good reputation' becomes 'name' (someone's good name is their reputation).
'pen'+'name'='PEN-NAME'
'like' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for pen name that I've seen before include "Author's alias" , "Nom de plume" , "Writer's pseudonym" , "Author's pseudonym" , "such as Mark Twain" .)