Sailor finishing breakfast in the motel maybe (7)
I believe the answer is:
matelot
'sailor' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'finishing breakfast in the motel maybe' is the wordplay.
'finishing breakfast' becomes 'at' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'in the' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'maybe' indicates anagramming the letters.
'motel' with letters rearranged gives 'melot'.
'at' put inside 'melot' is 'MATELOT'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for matelot that I've seen before include "One at sea" , "A lot met (anag) - sailor" , "Rating" , "Sailor (slang from French)" , "One sailor" .)