Show the bear struggling in the grip of a wild animal (7)
I believe the answer is:
cabaret
'show' is the definition.
(I know that cabaret is a type of show)
'bear struggling in the grip of a wild animal' is the wordplay.
'struggling' is an anagram indicator (the letters struggle or wriggle into a new form).
'in the grip of' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'a wild animal' becomes 'cat' (cats are animals. I am not sure about the 'wild' bit.).
'bear' anagrammed gives 'bare'.
'bare' put inside 'cat' is 'CABARET'.
'the' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for cabaret that I've seen before include "Entertainment provided in a nightclub" , "Liza Minnelli's entertainment?" , "Revue" , "Floor show for Arab etc" , "Stage show" .)