Famished gunners love having goddess round (8)
I believe the answer is:
ravenous
'famished' is the definition.
(I know that famished can be written as ravenous)
'gunners love having goddess round' is the wordplay.
'gunners' becomes 'RA' (Royal Artillery).
'love' becomes 'o' (love means zero in tennis).
'having goddess' becomes 'venus' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'round' indicates putting letters inside.
'o' placed within 'venus' is 'venous'.
'ra'+'venous'='RAVENOUS'
(Other definitions for ravenous that I've seen before include "A nervous way to be very hungry" , "Wolfish" , "Really hungry, starving" , "Voraciously hungry" , "needing to be fed" .)