Sailor finishing breakfast in the motel maybe (7)
I believe the answer is:
matelot
'sailor' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'finishing breakfast in the motel maybe' is the wordplay.
'finishing breakfast' becomes 'at' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'in the' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'maybe' indicates anagramming the letters.
'motel' with letters rearranged gives 'melot'.
'at' placed into 'melot' is 'MATELOT'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for matelot that I've seen before include "One at sea" , "A lot met (anag) - sailor" , "Rating" , "Sailor (slang from French)" , "One sailor" .)