Royal survivor giving what is expected to an audience (4)
I believe the answer is:
parr
'royal survivor' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both animals as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'giving what is expected to an audience' is the wordplay.
'giving' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'what is expected' becomes 'par' (an expected standard or level).
'to an audience' becomes 'r' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'par'+'r' is 'PARR'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for parr that I've seen before include "Fish" , "Young salmon; Queen Catherine ---" , "Henry VIII's sixth queen" , "Katherine --, last wife of Henry VIII" , "Catherine --, last wife of Henry VIII" .)