Cooked the carp in sequence (7)
I believe the answer is:
chapter
'sequence' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both related to natural events as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'cooked the carp' is the wordplay.
'cooked' indicates an anagram (letters cooked into a new form).
'the'+'carp'='thecarp'
'thecarp' anagrammed gives 'CHAPTER'.
'in' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for chapter that I've seen before include "Distinctive period of history" , "Division of book, usually numbered" , "religious assembly" , "Cathedral body" , "Part of book" .)