A North American daily covering one cold militant (7)
I believe the answer is:
fanatic
'militant' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'a north american daily covering one cold' is the wordplay.
'north american daily' becomes 'fanti' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'covering' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'one cold' becomes 'c' (eg on taps).
'a' put inside 'fanti' is 'fanati'.
'fanati'+'c'='FANATIC'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for fanatic that I've seen before include "Person filled with excessive zeal for cause" , "Zealot or extremist" , "Extreme enthusiast" , "Overzealous person" , "Narrow-minded enthusiast" .)