Working to a Greek character always, who might do better? (13)
I believe the answer is:
underachiever
'working to a greek character always who might do better?' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot see how one could define the other.
'working to a greek character always' is the wordplay.
'working' becomes 'under' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'to' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'greek character' becomes 'chi' (letter from the Greek alphabet).
'always' becomes 'ever' (synonyms).
'under'+'a'+'chi'+'ever'='UNDERACHIEVER'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for underachiever that I've seen before include "Person not reaching their potential" , "One doing less well than expected" .)