Vicious about a tough Manx turkey? (8)
I believe the answer is:
disaster
'manx turkey?' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both related to natural events as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'vicious about a tough' is the wordplay.
'vicious' becomes 'sid' (Sid Vicious from the Sex Pistols).
'about' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'a tough' becomes 'aster' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'sid' backwards is 'dis'.
'dis'+'aster'='DISASTER'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for disaster that I've seen before include "Tragedy of asterids" , "Catastrophe, tragedy" , "Extreme event resulting in great loss and misfortune" , "Catastrophic occurrence" , "Calamity, sudden great misfortune" .)