Fictional lion has time to get across (6)
I believe the answer is:
aslant
'across' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives. Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'fictional lion has time' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'time' could be 't' (abbreviation) and 't' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'aslan' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'to get' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for aslant that I've seen before include "Leaning; out of plumb" , "in oblique fashion" , "Skew-whiff" , "Out of the vertical" , "oblique view" .)