They recount article about rodents biting men on river (9)
I believe the answer is:
narrators
'they' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are plural nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'recount article about rodents biting men on river' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'article' could be 'a' (indefinite article) and 'a' is located in the answer.
'about' could be 'a' (abbreviation in Chambers) and 'a' is found in the answer.
'men' could be 'or' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'or' is found within the answer.
'river' could be 'r' and 'r' is found in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for narrators that I've seen before include "tale-tellers" , "Storytellers" , "Tellers of tales" .)