Servants bringing down article for legendary alchemist (5)
I believe the answer is:
midas
'legendary alchemist' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.
'servants bringing down article' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'down' could be 'd' and 'd' is found in the answer.
'article' could be 'a' (the indefinite article in English) and 'a' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'mis' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'for' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for midas that I've seen before include "Gold-making king" , "His touch made gold" , "Legendary king whose touch turned anything to gold" , "Legendary king with golden touch" , "old king" .)