International player fine after season with Bath, initially (9)
I believe the answer is:
springbok
'international player fine' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't see how one could define the other.
'season with bath initially' is the wordplay.
'season' becomes 'spring' (spring is a season).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'bath initially' becomes 'bok' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'spring'+'bok'='SPRINGBOK'
'after' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for springbok that I've seen before include "jumper" , "Sportsman" , "Antelope" , "South African symbol" , "antelopes" .)