CRYPTO CLUES IV

Each clue in a cryptic crossword has two parts: a definition of the answer and an indication of the answer's literal makeup via wordplay. Either part may come first. Finding the dividing point between the two parts is the key to solving. 

What single word or phrase answers both (all) parts of the clue?

1. Seafood order swindle by a two-letter math term

2. Place for a sword, a strike-breaker, and a poet

3. Head of neurology to dine with orderly.

4. River predator or ice cold

5. This is most painful, so lie down

6. Noiseless wild hunters

7. Game cube has been embedded in gold for so long

8. Clown gets negative reaction, including a snore

Answers:

1. SCAMPI

2. SCABBARD

3. NEAT (N = head of neurology)

4. CROCODILE (anagram for OR ICE COLD) 

5. SOREST (so rest)

6. LIONESSES (anagram)

7. ADIEU (Au = gold)

8. BOZO (boo + Z)

Credits:

GAMES/World of Puzzles

August, 2022

1-3: Toni Green

4-8: Merl Reagle