John organised a lot in the Ministry (6)
I believe the answer is:
milton
'ministry' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?
'john organised a lot in' is the wordplay.
'john' becomes 'min' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'organised' is an anagram indicator.
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'lot' anagrammed gives 'lto'.
'min' going around 'lto' is 'MILTON'.
'the' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for milton that I've seen before include "Blind poet of ` `Paradise Lost' '" , "Paradise Lost author" , "Comus poet" , "and 24: Town in Bucks" , "Great poet of 'Paradise Lost'" .)