Saintly provider of cooked meals outside the detention centre (6)
I believe the answer is:
anselm
'saintly provider' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.
'cooked meals outside the detention centre' is the wordplay.
'cooked' is an anagram indicator (letters cooked into a new form).
'outside' is an insertion indicator.
'centre' means to look at the middle letters.
The central letter of 'detention' is 'n'.
'meals' anagrammed gives 'aselm'.
'aselm' placed around 'n' is 'ANSELM'.
'of' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for anselm that I've seen before include "Canonised archbishop of Canterbury" , "Man" , "Saintly archbishop" , "Christian saint" , "Italian monk, saint and Archbishop of Canterbury, 1093-1109" .)