Larger ears on this adult French palatine tweaked (7,8)
I believe the answer is:
african elephant
'larger ears on this adult french palatine tweaked' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both animals as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'adult french palatine tweaked' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'adult' could be 'a' (abbreviation) and 'a' is found in the answer.
'french' could be 'fr' (abbreviation) and 'fr' is found in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for african elephant that I've seen is " Animal".)