Aquatic insect in river starts to nudge drifting reeds around fish (4,6)
I believe the answer is:
pond skater
'fish' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both animals as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'aquatic insect in river starts to nudge drifting reeds' is the wordplay.
'aquatic insect' becomes 'skate' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'river' becomes 'Po' (Italian river).
'starts to' suggests taking the first letters.
The initial letters of 'nudge drifting reeds' is 'ndr'.
'po'+'ndr'='pondr'
'skate' going within 'pondr' is 'POND-SKATER'.
'around' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?