I start to cry, overwhelmed by thrashing saviour suffered for another (9)
I believe the answer is:
vicarious
'saviour suffered for another' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.
'i start to cry overwhelmed by thrashing' is the wordplay.
'start to' indicates taking the first letters.
'overwhelmed by' is an insertion indicator (inserted letters get absorbed or overwhelmed).
'thrashing' becomes 'various' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
The first letter of 'cry' is 'c'.
'i'+'c'='ic'
'ic' put into 'various' is 'VICARIOUS'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for vicarious that I've seen before include "Acting for another" , "Standing in for another" , "Indirect" , "Acting for others" , "Replacing another" .)