Be slow to give credit for breaking the law (5)
I believe the answer is:
crawl
'be slow' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot understand how one could define the other.
'credit for breaking the law' is the wordplay.
'credit' becomes 'cr'.
'for' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'breaking' is an anagram indicator.
'law' anagrammed gives 'awl'.
'cr'+'awl'='CRAWL'
'to give' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for crawl that I've seen before include "Proceed on hands and knees" , "inch" , "Suck up to" , "Progress, slow on land but fast in water" , "Go on all fours" .)