I grab gentle wild beast (6,5)
I believe the answer is:
bengal tiger
'beast' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both animals as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'i grab gentle wild' is the wordplay.
'wild' indicates anagramming the letters.
'i'+'grab'+'gentle'='igrabgentle'
'igrabgentle' is an anagram of 'BENGAL TIGER'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for bengal tiger that I've seen is " Striped animal from Asia".)