Creature spending many a morning with its victim? (7)
I believe the answer is:
lamprey
'creature' is the definition.
(lamprey is a kind of animal)
'spending many a morning with its victim?' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'many' could be 'm' (Roman numeral for a thousand) and 'm' is found within the answer.
'a' is present in the answer.
'victim?' could be 'prey' (prey is a kind of victim) and 'prey' is located in the answer.
A single letter 'l' remains which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for lamprey that I've seen before include "Fish with sucker mouth" , "Eel-like creature - play REM (anag)" , "Fish-like vertebrate" , "Eel-like animal" , "Swimmer" .)