Water level reversed by old king in cutter? (6)
I believe the answer is:
editor
'cutter?' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'water level reversed by old king' is the wordplay.
'water level' becomes 'tide' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'reversed' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'by' says to put letters next to each other.
'old' becomes 'o' (common abbreviation eg in OE for Old English).
'king' becomes 'R' (abbreviation for rex, king in Latin).
'tide' reversed gives 'edit'.
'edit'+'o'+'r'='EDITOR'
'in' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for editor that I've seen before include "Head of a newspaper say" , "Media boss" , "Magazine head" , "Person in charge of a publication" , "Director of 3 down" .)