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Having looked up the solution I can fit it to the clue below. But is there a logical method to go the other way, to get to the solution from the clue?

Ignoramus stood in rear? No, no, no no! (6)

Extremely tough. I guess given there are four words and four no’s, you might deduce that you need to create the opposite of each word to find the true clue and work from there. It’s rather good once you know the answer!

I often solve clues by finding a word that fits the crossers and/or the definition and then work backwards!
This was a particularly hard one to solve blind.

May I ask where this is from?

Thanks for these replies. The puzzle was No 2972 in the i yesterday.

I do often use the "rossim method" on i puzzles but I don't like it as it does lose the point of a cryptic puzzle.