Ray and Henry escaping village near Tokyo once (7)
I believe the answer is:
torpedo
'ray' is the definition.
(I know that torpedo is a type of ray)
'henry escaping village near tokyo once' is the wordplay.
'henry' becomes 'H' (symbol for the unit of electrical inductance).
'escaping' suggests deleting specific letters.
'village' becomes 'thorpe' (I've seen this before).
'near tokyo once' becomes 'do' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'thorpe' with 'h' taken out is 'torpe'.
'torpe'+'do'='TORPEDO'
'and' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for torpedo that I've seen before include "Self-propelled underwater explosive device" , "Naval missile" , "Anti-ship weapon" , "Missile form a submarine" , "Destroy" .)