Bishop on toilet dashed, escaping a war (9)
I believe the answer is:
bloodshed
'a war' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'bishop on toilet dashed escaping' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'bishop' could be 'b' (abbreviation for bishop in chess) and 'b' is found in the answer.
'toilet' could be 'loo' (loo can informally mean a toilet) and 'loo' is found within the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for bloodshed that I've seen before include "Carnage" , "The killing or wounding of people, very gory" , "Indiscriminate slaughter" .)