Cured starters of red, essential meats enwrapped and packed up? (8)
I believe the answer is:
remedied
'cured starters of red essential meats enwrapped and packed up?' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.
'starters of red essential meats enwrapped and packed up?' is the wordplay.
'starters of' indicates taking the first letters.
'and' says to put letters next to each other.
'packed up?' becomes 'died' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
The initial letters of 'red essential meats enwrapped' is 'reme'.
'reme'+'died'='REMEDIED'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for remedied that I've seen before include "sorted out" , "Put right" .)