Still he emails rubbish about Left's novel opening words (4,2,7)
I believe the answer is:
call me ishmael
'left's novel opening words' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether it can be defined by this definition.
'still he emails rubbish' is the wordplay.
'still' becomes 'callm' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'rubbish' indicates anagramming the letters (a poor quality or rubbish spelling of the letters).
'he'+'emails'='heemails'
'heemails' with letters rearranged gives 'eishmael'.
'callm'+'eishmael'='CALL ME ISHMAEL'
'about' is the link.
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I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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