Shout about a mere distressed cheese plant (8)
I believe the answer is:
creamery
'cheese plant' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'shout about a mere distressed' is the wordplay.
'shout' becomes 'cry' (synonyms).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'distressed' indicates anagramming the letters.
'a'+'mere'='amere'
'amere' anagrammed gives 'reame'.
'cry' enclosing 'reame' is 'CREAMERY'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for creamery that I've seen before include "dairy business" , "Where dairy products are made" , "Where dairy products are produced" .)