Continue boringly to tell you what prompted the child's nightmare? (6)
I believe the answer is:
dragon
'child's nightmare?' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot see how one could define the other.
'continue boringly to tell you what prompted' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'continue' could be 'on' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'on' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'drag' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'the' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for dragon that I've seen before include "Mythical fire-breather" , "Virago" , "Fire-breathing creature of myth" , "[TERMAGANT]" , "battleaxe" .)