Wryly amusing to ignore king from ancient Greece (5)
I believe the answer is:
ionic
'ancient greece' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't understand how they can define each other.
'wryly amusing to ignore king' is the wordplay.
'wryly amusing' becomes 'ironic' (I've seen this before).
'to ignore' is a deletion indicator.
'king' becomes 'R' (abbreviation for rex, king in Latin).
'ironic' with 'r' taken away is 'IONIC'.
'from' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for ionic that I've seen before include "Style of Greek column used for the British Museum and the US Capitol" , "Classical dialect" , "Relating to charged particles" , "Greek school" , "Classical style" .)