Serpentine coils wrapping large statues of giants (7)
I believe the answer is:
colossi
'giants' is the definition.
('colossus' can be a synonym of 'giant')
'serpentine coils wrapping large statues' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'large' could be 'os' and 'os' is present in the answer.
an anagram of 'coils' is 'colsi' which is present in the left over letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
'of' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for colossi that I've seen before include "Very large statues" , "heavyweights" , "Gigantic statues" , "huge figures" , "Huge statues" .)