True tale I adapted about rector for serious reading (10)
I believe the answer is:
literature
'serious reading' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both acts as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'true tale i adapted about rector' is the wordplay.
'adapted' is an anagram indicator.
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'rector' becomes 'r'.
'true'+'tale'+'i'='truetalei'
'truetalei' is an anagram of 'literatue'.
'literatue' placed around 'r' is 'LITERATURE'.
'for' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for literature that I've seen before include "fliers" , "Written material" , "Work by Spenser for instance" , "Creative writing" , "Written texts" .)