Crop tail, suffering in such heat (8)
I believe the answer is:
tropical
'such heat' is the definition.
The definition and answer are not the same part of speech.
'crop tail suffering' is the wordplay.
'suffering' indicates anagramming the letters.
'crop'+'tail'='croptail'
'croptail' anagrammed gives 'TROPICAL'.
'in' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for tropical that I've seen before include "Originating from hotter parts of the earth" , "Middle-earth" , "extremely warm" , "April-Oct, unusually humid and very hot" , "rainforest areas" .)