Hybrids
To finish this season’s Clues of Repute - the juiciest clues of 2007 - we have the hybrid variety, a clue blending two or more cryptic categories. In other words, apprentice solvers, run for your life! These are the mongrels in both senses. But oh what exquisite mongrels.
(And for the braver soul, look out for the upcoming Hybrids 2 - the last but beast of this series.)
1) What you find inside boat, right? (3) _ A _
2) Empty pews? Revise hymnal (7) _ _ A _ _ _ R
3) Early bird rejecting a worm oddly (3) _ _ A
4) Busy time of year to be lacking male self-esteem (2,3,2) O _ / _ _ _ / _ O
5) Erratic wandering causes death of dinosaur (11) T _ _ _ E _ A _ _ _ _
6) One in unending sex story (11) I _ S _ _ _ _ _ _ _ E
7) Freak out in tense situation! (4,6) _ A _ E / _ R _ _ _ _
8) Set clothes near rumpled blanket (7) _ E _ E _ A _
LAST BATCH SOLUTION: 1) Pez 2) Noah 3) Knife 4) Feller 5) Hyphen 6) Roundly 7) Crisper 8 Hotwire 9) Window shopper 10) Poetic justice 11) Have a screw loose 12) Straight flush