Butchered mink, alpaca and llama, say (4,6)
I believe the answer is:
pack animal
'llama say' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't see how one could define the other.
'butchered mink alpaca' is the wordplay.
'butchered' is an anagram indicator (I've seen 'butcher' mean this).
'mink'+'alpaca'='minkalpaca'
'minkalpaca' is an anagram of 'PACK-ANIMAL'.
'and' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for pack animal that I've seen before include "Mule, for example" , "it humps loads" , "llama, perhaps" .)