Studious composer of carols about Holyhead (7)
I believe the answer is:
scholar
'studious composer' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'of carols about holyhead' is the wordplay.
'of' indicates anagramming the letters (the answer comes from or 'of' the letters).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'holyhead' becomes 'h' (head letter of 'holy').
'carols' anagrammed gives 'scolar'.
'scolar' enclosing 'h' is 'SCHOLAR'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for scholar that I've seen before include "Academic, schoolboy" , "Distinguished academic" , "Learned type" , "Person of learning" , "Noted academic" .)