Animal movie doesn’t open with credit (8)
I believe the answer is:
creature
'credit' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't see how one could define the other.
'animal movie doesn't open' is the wordplay.
'animal' becomes 'cr' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'movie' becomes 'feature' (feature is a kind of movie).
'doesn't open' means to remove the first letter (the letter which opens the word is missing).
'feature' with its first letter taken off is 'eature'.
'cr'+'eature'='CREATURE'
'with' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for creature that I've seen before include "Human being or lower animal" , "Any organism with voluntary movement" , "Bird, beast, insect etc" , "soul" , "Animal or person" .)