Figures to interrupt a meal for an exam (7)
I believe the answer is:
medical
'an exam' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot understand how one could define the other.
'figures to interrupt a meal' is the wordplay.
'figures' becomes 'dic' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'to interrupt' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'dic' put within 'meal' is 'MEDICAL'.
'for' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for medical that I've seen before include "Thorough health check" , "Of the science dealing with treatment of disease" , "Of the healing sciences" , "Fitness examination" , "Relating to treatment rather than surgery" .)