In West Indies look petulant about newspaper boss being eliminated (5,3)
I believe the answer is:
wiped out
'being eliminated' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'in west indies look petulant about newspaper boss' is the wordplay.
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'west indies' becomes 'wi'.
'look petulant' becomes 'pout' (I've seen this before).
'about newspaper boss' becomes 'ed' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'wi'+'pout'='wipout'
'wipout' placed around 'ed' is 'WIPED OUT'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for wiped out that I've seen before include "Destroyed completely" , "Killed to the last man" , "Capsized while surfing" , "Completely removed" , "Eliminated" .)