Creature in a bad temper hugged by divine being (9)
I believe the answer is:
gastropod
'creature' is the definition.
(gastropod is a kind of creature)
'a bad temper hugged by divine being' is the wordplay.
'bad temper' becomes 'strop' (strop can mean a temper tantrum).
'hugged by' means one lot of letters goes inside another (I've seen this in other clues).
'divine being' becomes 'god' (I've seen this in another clue).
'a'+'strop'='astrop'
'astrop' put within 'god' is 'GASTROPOD'.
'in' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for gastropod that I've seen before include "Little creature" , "Escargot" , "sluggish type" , "Mollusc such as snail or limpet" , "slug, perhaps" .)