Snowball the rabbit filled with gore after butchery (7)
I believe the answer is:
burgeon
'snowball' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'rabbit filled with gore after butchery' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
an anagram of 'gore' is 'rgeo' which is within the answer.
'rabbit' could be 'bun' and 'bun' is located in the leftover letters.
No letters remain.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'the' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for burgeon that I've seen before include "develop quickly" , "Grow, rapidly increase" , "Develop rapidly" , "Grow and flourish" , "Shoot" .)