Fine breaking piece of crockery for savage (8)

I believe the answer is:

fiendish

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'savage' is the definition.
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'fine breaking piece of crockery' is the wordplay.
'breaking' indicates an anagram.
'piece of crockery' becomes 'dish' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'fine' anagrammed gives 'fien'.
'fien'+'dish'='FIENDISH'

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(Other definitions for fiendish that I've seen before include "Terrible" , "like some Sudokus" , "very hard" , "Diabolical" , "Infernal" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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