Lack of fur, mostly, on a large puppet? (7)
I believe the answer is:
nominal
'puppet?' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'lack of fur mostly on a large' is the wordplay.
'lack of' becomes 'no' (eg no bread means a lack of bread).
'fur mostly' becomes 'mina' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'on' says to put letters next to each other (in a down clue, letters appear on others).
'a large' becomes 'L' (eg in clothes sizes).
'no'+'mina'+'l'='NOMINAL'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for nominal that I've seen before include "not real" , "Peppercorn rent" , "Ironical understatement (gram mar.)" , "Token - lion-man (anag)" , "Minor" .)