Each strange accent disturbed dolphin? (8)
I believe the answer is:
cetacean
'dolphin?' is the definition.
(dolphin is a kind of cetacean)
'each strange accent disturbed' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'each' could be 'ea' (abbreviation) and 'ea' is present in the answer.
an anagram of 'accent' is 'cetacn' which is located in the remaining letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for cetacean that I've seen before include "Member of the animal order containing whales and dolphins" , "Large marine mammal" , "Eg, whale, dolphin, etc" , "One swimming" , "Generic name for whale, dolphin or porpoise" .)