Drummer's daughter given kiss when naive suitor's around? (5,10)
I believe the answer is:
green woodpecker
'drummer's daughter' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot understand how they can define each other.
'given kiss when naive suitor's around?' is the wordplay.
'given kiss when' becomes 'dpeck' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'naive' becomes 'green' (similar in meaning).
'suitor' becomes 'wooer' (synonyms).
'around?' is an insertion indicator.
'green'+'wooer'='greenwooer'
'dpeck' placed into 'greenwooer' is 'GREEN WOODPECKER'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for green woodpecker that I've seen is " flyer".)