Fan cures Obama in dilapidated car showroom? (6,7)
I believe the answer is:
camera obscura
'showroom?' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'fan cures obama in dilapidated car' is the wordplay.
'fan' is an anagram indicator (letters must be fanned around).
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'dilapidated' indicates anagramming the letters.
'cures'+'obama'='curesobama'
'curesobama' anagrammed gives 'ameraobscu'.
'car' is an anagram of 'cra'.
'ameraobscu' put within 'cra' is 'CAMERA OBSCURA'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for camera obscura that I've seen before include "Dark room, images projected in" , "Early image-projection device" , "Dark room arranged to project outside objects" , "Small building with optical function" , "Box with lens for projecting image of external view" .)