City torn apart when captured by crazed male (8)
I believe the answer is:
montreal
'city' is the definition.
(Montreal is an example)
'torn apart when captured by crazed male' is the wordplay.
'apart' is an anagram indicator.
'when captured by' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'crazed' is an anagram indicator (I've seen this in other clues).
'torn' anagrammed gives 'ontr'.
'male' anagrammed gives 'meal'.
'ontr' placed within 'meal' is 'MONTREAL'.
(Other definitions for montreal that I've seen before include "Canada's largest city, port on St Lawrence river" , "Let Norma go to the city" , "9/11 [OLYMPIC VENUE]" , "Largest city of Quebec" , "Canadian location?" .)