Beast featured in this paper is warlord (6)
I believe the answer is:
shogun
'warlord' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'beast featured in this paper' is the wordplay.
'beast' becomes 'hog' (hog is a kind of beast).
'featured in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'this paper' becomes 'sun' (The Sun, UK newspaper).
'hog' put into 'sun' is 'SHOGUN'.
'is' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for shogun that I've seen before include "Hereditary military governor in Japan" , "Feudal Japanese leader" , "Leader in feudal Japan" , "Foreign C-in-C" , "Hereditary army commander in feudal Japan" .)