Monstrous creature (9)

I believe the answer is:

leviathan

(Other definitions for leviathan that I've seen before include "Huge (sea) monster" , "An evil hat turns to anything of great size" , "Biblical sea-monster" , "Autocratic monarch" , "Gigantic" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.

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