Compliant lie dying following attack? (8)
I believe the answer is:
yielding
'compliant' is the definition.
('yielding' can be similar in meaning to 'compliant')
'lie dying following attack?' is the wordplay.
'following' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'attack?' is an anagram indicator (I've seen 'attack' mean this).
'lie'+'dying'='liedying'
'liedying' is an anagram of 'YIELDING'.
(Other definitions for yielding that I've seen before include "Soft, rather than rigid" , "surrender" , "Producing, delivering" , "compliant" , "Succumbing" .)