Playwright entertaining a man of colour? (7)
I believe the answer is:
painter
'man of colour?' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both animals as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'playwright entertaining a' is the wordplay.
'playwright' becomes 'pinter' (Harold Pinter).
'entertaining' means one lot of letters goes inside another (inviting in, as for dinner).
'pinter' placed around 'a' is 'PAINTER'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for painter that I've seen before include "Bow tie" , "One who has a brush" , "Bacon, perhaps" , "Eg, Constable" , "someone like Monet" .)