Emma's mother leaves clutching broken elbow, showing guts once (8)
Definition
guts once
Wordplay type
Anagram
Explanation
An envelope (‘clutching’) of BOWEL, an anagram (‘broken’) of ‘elbow’ in ‘Em[ma]’s’ minus MA (‘mother leaves’), for an old version of disembowel.
Source: Fifteensquared
Answer
EMBOWELS