Walking fish lax about accepting love and fate (7)
I believe the answer is:
axolotl
'walking fish' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both animals as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'lax about accepting love and fate' is the wordplay.
'about' indicates anagramming the letters.
'accepting' is an insertion indicator.
'love' becomes 'o' (In tennis, 'love' means 'zero').
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'fate' becomes 'lot' ('lot' can be a synonym of 'fate').
'lax' is an anagram of 'axl'.
'o'+'lot'='olot'
'axl' going around 'olot' is 'AXOLOTL'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for axolotl that I've seen before include "Central American salamander - lax tool (anag)" , "amphibian" , "Mexican native" , "Type of salamander" , "Mexican salamander - allot ox (anag)" .)