Cardinal pursuing witches, eating fish, died somewhere in WC2 (6,6)
I believe the answer is:
covent garden
'cardinal' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'pursuing witches eating fish died somewhere in wc2' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'witches' could be 'coven' (a coven is a group of witches) and 'coven' is present in the answer.
'fish' could be 'gar' (type of fish) and 'gar' is present in the answer.
'died' could be 'd' (abbreviation next to the year of someone's death) and 'd' is found within the answer.
The remaining letters 'ten' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for covent garden that I've seen before include "London tourist area with opera house" , "London's old fruit and veg market" , "Royal Opera House location" , "Site of London's Royal Opera House" .)