Who seeks office snake catching wrong train? (8)
I believe the answer is:
aspirant
'who seeks office' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this definition defines the answer.
'snake catching wrong train?' is the wordplay.
'snake' becomes 'asp' (asp is a kind of snake).
'catching' means one lot of letters goes inside another (I've seen this in other clues).
'wrong' indicates anagramming the letters.
'train' with letters rearranged gives 'irant'.
'asp' going inside 'irant' is 'ASPIRANT'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for aspirant that I've seen before include "Partisan (anag)" , "expressing high ambition?" , "Ambitious" , "Awannabee found in past rain" , "pretender" .)