Are new bananas in animal's grasp? (9)
I believe the answer is:
awareness
'grasp?' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'are new bananas in animal's' is the wordplay.
'bananas' indicates an anagram (informal term for mad).
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'animal' becomes 'ass' (I've seen this before).
'are'+'new'='arenew'
'arenew' anagrammed gives 'warene'.
'warene' going within 'ass' is 'AWARENESS'.
(Other definitions for awareness that I've seen before include "Grasp" , "Knowledge or consciousness" , "understanding" , "Insight" , "Consciousness, knowingness" .)