Yankee giddy over writer - the type that's a natural looker with a view (5,3)
I believe the answer is:
naked eye
'a view' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'yankee giddy over writer' is the wordplay.
'giddy' indicates anagramming the letters.
'over' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'writer' becomes 'ed' (I've seen this in other clues).
'yankee' is an anagram of 'nakeye'.
'nakeye' enclosing 'ed' is 'NAKED EYE'.
'the type that's a natural looker with' acts as a link.
This may not be correct. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for naked eye that I've seen before include "Unassisted vision" , "With which to observe" , "Unaided vision" , "(View) unaided by any optical instrument" , "Observer" .)