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 can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'thorpe' with 'h' taken away 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" .)