Source of drink in Oscar picture about origin of tea (5)
I believe the answer is:
optic
'source of drink' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot understand how they can define each other.
'oscar picture about origin of tea' is the wordplay.
'oscar' becomes 'O' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'picture' becomes 'pic' (short for picture).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'origin of' indicates taking the first letters.
The first letter of 'tea' is 't'.
'pic' placed around 't' is 'ptic'.
'o'+'ptic'='OPTIC'
'in' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for optic that I've seen before include "Relating to the eyes" , "Pertaining to the eye" , "Pertaining to sight" , "Topic (anag.)" , "Spirits dispenser" .)