Lion comes skidding to less than a full stop (9)
I believe the answer is:
semicolon
'less than a full stop' is the definition.
'lion comes skidding' is the wordplay.
'skidding' is an anagram indicator.
'lion'+'comes'='lioncomes'
'lioncomes' with letters rearranged gives 'SEMICOLON'.
'to' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for semicolon that I've seen before include "can cut sentence" , "half a stop" , "Item of punctuation" , "used by writers for a break" , "Punctuation mark denoting a pause in a sentence" .)