Pupil's surroundings somehow anodyne after company of writer (5,5)
I believe the answer is:
conan doyle
'writer' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'pupil's surroundings somehow anodyne after company' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'company' could be 'co' (abbreviation) and 'co' is found in the answer.
'pupil' could be 'l' and 'l' is present in the answer.
an anagram of 'anodyne' is 'nandoye' which is located in the left over letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'of' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for conan doyle that I've seen before include "popular author" , "The Lost World author" , "Sherlock Holmes author" , "A Study in Scarlet author" , "Holmes creator" .)