What a composer produces for a long time? (5)
I believe the answer is:
opera
'long time?' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't understand how one could define the other.
'what a composer produces for a' is the wordplay.
'what a composer produces' becomes 'oper' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'for' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'oper'+'a'='OPERA'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for opera that I've seen before include "Drama or comedy set to music" , "Die Meistersinger is one" , "some theatrics" , "Musical 11 across" , ""The Magic Flute", for example" .)