Quiet year in unusual city post - one won’t work for dictator (4,6)
I believe the answer is:
copy typist
'one won't work for dictator' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.
'quiet year in unusual city post' is the wordplay.
'quiet' becomes 'p' (music symbol for 'piano').
'year' becomes 'y'.
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'unusual' indicates anagramming the letters.
'p'+'y'='py'
'city'+'post'='citypost'
'citypost' is an anagram of 'cotypist'.
'py' put into 'cotypist' is 'COPY TYPIST'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for copy typist that I've seen is " one used to transcribe documents".)