8th position (from Jumbo crossword puzzle number 1171)

On Saturdays and bank holidays the Times publish a Jumbo crossword, with a grid of 27 x 27 squares rather than 15 x 15.  Occasionally these yield gems like this:

One of the most common types of cryptic clue is the anagram, where letters are reshuffled to make a defined word or phrase.  Consider these clues (I've capitalised  in each case the word indicating that an anagram is required):

Each of these clues is brilliant in its own right, providing an amusingly plausible surface reading.  I'll put the answers at the bottom of this page, to give you chance to see if you can work them out yourself.

For the moment, though, back to our clue.  Here the word FRESH indicates that an anagram is required.  This leaves us with:

The answer is DAWN CHORUS, using "air" to denote a song, rather than a gas.  This clue is just about perfect, containing all the things I look for in a cryptic clue:

• A misleading definition;
• A smooth (but misleading) surface reading;
• Good wordplay.

Oh, and the answers to the clues above are NORWEGIAN, SANGFROID and PHOTOSYNTHESIS.