Start of second half of year given a miss (5)
I believe the answer is:
julia
'miss' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'start of second half of year given a' is the wordplay.
'start of second half of year' becomes 'Jul I' (July 1st).
'given' says to put letters next to each other.
'juli'+'a'='JULIA'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for julia that I've seen before include "Girl" , "___ Roberts, actor" , "- - Roberts, star" , "-- Roberts, US actress" .)