The sound of someone happy with killing? (12)
I believe the answer is:
manslaughter
'killing?' is the definition.
(I know that manslaughter is a type of homicide)
'the sound of someone happy' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
an anagram of 'the' is 'hte' which is located in the answer.
'someone' could be 'man' (man is a kind of someone) and 'man' is located in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'with' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for manslaughter that I've seen before include "Homicide without malice aforethought" , "slaying" , "charge?" , "Crime of unpremeditated killing" , "Unlawful killing" .)