Someone threatening? Chaps race confusedly (7)
I believe the answer is:
menacer
'someone' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'threatening? chaps race confusedly' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'chaps' could be 'men' (chap means a man) and 'men' is located in the answer.
an anagram of 'race' is 'acer' which is within the answer.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for menacer that I've seen is " threat".)