Salute guard at sea carrying older lady - that's sweet! (10,5)
I believe the answer is:
granulated sugar
'sweet' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Perhaps they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'salute guard at sea carrying older lady' is the wordplay.
'at sea' is an anagram indicator.
'carrying' means one lot of letters go next to another (in a down clue, the bottom letters carry others).
'older lady' becomes 'gran' (I have seen 'old lady' mean 'gran' so perhaps 'lady' could also mean 'gran'. I am not sure about the 'older' bit.).
'salute'+'guard'='saluteguard'
'saluteguard' anagrammed gives 'ulatedsugar'.
'ulatedsugar' put after 'gran' is 'GRANULATED SUGAR'.
'that's' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for granulated sugar that I've seen before include "White sweetener" , "sweetener needed" .)