German writer leaves short article (6)
I believe the answer is:
goethe
'german writer' is the definition.
(johann wolfgang von goethe)
'short article' is the wordplay.
'short' becomes 'goe' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'article' becomes 'the' (the 'definite article' part of speech).
'goe'+'the'='GOETHE'
'leaves' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for goethe that I've seen before include "Poet's" , "The ego, strangely, of the German writer" , "Eighteenth to nineteenth century German poet and dramatist (Faust)" , "Johann Wolfgang von -, German dramatist" , "German author (Faust)" .)