Problem to the rear? Hurry round rear of van (9)
I believe the answer is:
hindrance
'problem' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both related to thinking as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'the rear? hurry round rear of van' is the wordplay.
'the rear?' becomes 'hind' (I've seen this before).
'hurry' becomes 'race' (synonyms).
'round' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'rear of' says to take the final letters.
The last letter of 'van' is 'n'.
'race' going around 'n' is 'rance'.
'hind'+'rance'='HINDRANCE'
'to' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for hindrance that I've seen before include "Let" , "bar" , "Chain nerd up - it delays progress" , "Obstacle" , "Delay to overcome" .)