Leggy individual recklessly enticed naked apes (9)
I believe the answer is:
centipede
'leggy individual' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't see how one could define the other.
'recklessly enticed naked apes' is the wordplay.
'recklessly' indicates an anagram (I've seen this in other clues).
'naked' means to look at the middle letters.
The middle of 'apes' is 'pe'.
'enticed'+'pe'='enticedpe'
'enticedpe' with letters rearranged gives 'CENTIPEDE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for centipede that I've seen before include "Many-legged insect" , "Many-legged invertebrates" , "Many-legged creepy-crawly" , "Many-legged arthropod" , "Creepy type" .)