Salesman after visiting European capital brought back a sovereign (7)
I believe the answer is:
emperor
'salesman' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'visiting european capital brought back a sovereign' is the wordplay.
'visiting' indicates putting letters inside.
'european capital' becomes 'rome' (I've seen this before).
'brought back' says the letters should be written backwards.
'a sovereign' becomes 'per' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'rome' backwards is 'emor'.
'emor' going around 'per' is 'EMPEROR'.
'after' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for emperor that I've seen before include "Large colourful butterfly" , "Ruler; butterfly" , "Absolute ruler" , "Character in 24 ac" , "Japanese version of the king" .)