I see ruffled hen, saving skin, jump on mongoose (9)
I believe the answer is:
ichneumon
'mongoose' is the definition.
(ichneumon is a kind of mongoose)
'i see ruffled hen saving skin jump on' is the wordplay.
'see' becomes 'C' (the word for the letter, according to Chambers).
'ruffled' is an anagram indicator.
'saving skin' means to look at the middle letters (the 'skin' of the word is left out or 'saved').
The middle letters of 'jump' are 'um'.
'hen' is an anagram of 'hne'.
'i'+'c'+'hne'+'um'+'on'='ICHNEUMON'
(Other definitions for ichneumon that I've seen before include "snake-slayer" , "African native" , "Fly" , "Parasitic wasp" , "mongoose" .)