Continue boringly to tell you what prompted the child's nightmare? (6)
I believe the answer is:
dragon
'child's nightmare?' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot see how they can define each other.
'continue boringly to tell you what prompted' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'continue' could be 'on' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'on' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'drag' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'the' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for dragon that I've seen before include "Mythical fire-breather" , "Virago" , "Fire-breathing creature of myth" , "[TERMAGANT]" , "battleaxe" .)