Short swirl in cleaner dairy produce (7)
I believe the answer is:
cheddar
'dairy produce' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both things that one consumes for nourishment as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'short swirl in cleaner' is the wordplay.
'short' means to remove the last letter.
'swirl' becomes 'eddy' ('eddy' can be a synonym of 'swirl').
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'cleaner' becomes 'char' (charwoman is a type of cleaner).
'eddy' with its last letter taken away is 'edd'.
'edd' put inside 'char' is 'CHEDDAR'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for cheddar that I've seen before include "Firm cheese as made in Somerset" , "Somerset village" , "Type of cheese" , "part of ploughman's lunch" , "Gorge with caves - cheese" .)