Drinks taken outside before noon for novelist (6,4)
I believe the answer is:
martin amis
'novelist' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't judge whether it can be defined by this definition.
'drinks taken outside before noon' is the wordplay.
'drinks' becomes 'martinis' (martini is a kind of drink).
'taken outside' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'before noon' becomes 'AM' (as in AM on a clock).
'martinis' enclosing 'am' is 'MARTIN AMIS'.
'for' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for martin amis that I've seen before include "Writer" , "The Rachel Papers was his first novel in 1973" .)