Person blending in tea with energy-packed fruit? (9)
I believe the answer is:
chameleon
'person blending' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't understand how one could define the other.
'tea with energy-packed fruit?' is the wordplay.
'tea' becomes 'cha' (cha is a type of tea).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'energy' becomes 'e' (physics symbol as in E=mce).
'packed' is an insertion indicator (some letters are packed into others).
'fruit?' becomes 'melon' (type of fruit).
'e' put into 'melon' is 'meleon'.
'cha'+'meleon'='CHAMELEON'
'in' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for chameleon that I've seen before include "Ha! Clone me (anag)" , "Lizard able to change its skin colour" , "Small lizard able to change colour" , "person who's changeable" , "Colour-changing lizard" .)