One taking credit for being a witch? (5)
I believe the answer is:
crone
'witch?' is the definition.
(I know that witch can be written as crone)
'one taking credit for being a' is the wordplay.
'one taking credit for' becomes 'cr' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'being a' becomes 'one'.
'cr'+'one'='CRONE'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for crone that I've seen before include "withered old woman" , "Old hag" , "Witch" , "offensive old woman" , "old-womanish type" .)