mc5 - Obscure vault 99 (7)

It's the cryptic crossword discussion game. Tease each other with clues, help each other with the dailies, educate the beginners, whatever.

Martha Farquar

15 minutes later...

[Raak] Thanks

Hugo Rune

[Darren] It is, yes.
Flesh-eating crone follows pig draped in the Koranic verses (11). This is a work in progress, and an experiment for me, so see how you do...

Martha Farquar

Only flesh-eating crone I know is Baba Yaga - which doesn't help me but maybe it will for someone else.

Raak

CARNIVOROUS fits the length and what might be the definition, but doesn't appear to fit anything else.

Wol

It's something like ----COPHAGE or (more likely) --COPHAGOUS, I think - but the Koranic verses bit has me stumped, and the whole is (I reckon) a word I don't know.