Sawyer creator may smear a couple (4,5)
I believe the answer is:
mark twain
'sawyer creator' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I can't tell whether this works.
'smear a couple' is the wordplay.
'smear' becomes 'mark' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'a couple' becomes 'twain' (archaic term for 'two').
'mark'+'twain'='MARK TWAIN'
'may' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for mark twain that I've seen before include "American humorous writer, d. 1910" , "Tom had him writing about?" , "Writer of Huckleberry Finn" , "US writer" , ""The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" author" .)