The Mikado - it's crazily more about setting up a gent? (7)
I believe the answer is:
emperor
'the mikado' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'crazily more about setting up a gent?' is the wordplay.
'crazily' is an anagram indicator.
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'setting up' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'a gent?' becomes 'rep' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'rep' backwards is 'per'.
'more' with letters rearranged gives 'emor'.
'emor' placed around 'per' is 'EMPEROR'.
'it's' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for emperor that I've seen before include "Ancient Roman ruler" , "Large richly coloured butterfly" , "Supreme ruler" , "Large colourful butterfly" , "eg Nero" .)