Neck broken in a car crash between Spithead and the Hog's Back (5)
I believe the answer is:
scrag
'neck broken in' is the definition.
'scrag' can be an answer for 'neck' (I've seen this before). I am unsure of the 'broken in' bit.
'a car crash between spithead and the hog's back' is the wordplay.
'crash' indicates an anagram.
'between' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'spithead' becomes 's' (head letter of 'spit').
'and' says to put letters next to each other.
'back' suggests the final letters (the letter at the back).
The final letter of 'hog' is 'g'.
'car' with letters rearranged gives 'cra'.
's'+'g'='sg'
'cra' placed within 'sg' is 'SCRAG'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for scrag that I've seen before include "Poor quality meat - throttle" , "Collar" , "The inferior end of a neck of mutton" , "Bony part of the neck" , "End of neck - beat up" .)