Tiny blonde novel writer criticised for being dumb (4,6)
I believe the answer is:
enid blyton
'writer criticised for being dumb' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether it can be defined by this definition.
'tiny blonde novel' is the wordplay.
'novel' indicates anagramming the letters (letters in a new or novel order).
'tiny'+'blonde'='tinyblonde'
'tinyblonde' is an anagram of 'ENID BLYTON'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for enid blyton that I've seen before include "Children's author" , "Writer of children's books, d. 1968" , "Famous Five author" , "Noddy's creator" .)