Criminal excitedly ready when taking in island (6)
I believe the answer is:
yardie
'criminal' is the definition.
(yardie is a kind of criminal)
'excitedly ready when taking in island' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'island' could be 'i' (geographical abbreviation) and 'i' is found within the answer.
an anagram of 'ready' is 'yarde' which is present in the left over letters.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for yardie that I've seen before include "West Indian gang member" , "West Indian gangster" , "Gangster (originally Jamaican)" .)