Goes around empty palace with King and surveyors (7)
I believe the answer is:
peepers
'surveyors' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being plural nouns.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?
'goes around empty palace with king' is the wordplay.
'goes' becomes 'pees' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'around' is an insertion indicator.
'empty' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'king' becomes 'R' (abbreviation of Latin rex).
'palace' with its middle taken out is 'pe'.
'pe'+'r'='per'
'pees' placed around 'per' is 'PEEPERS'.
'and' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for peepers that I've seen before include "They look" , "sound like young birds" .)