Phoney call from pond life? (5)
I believe the answer is:
quack
This could be a double definition.
'phoney' is the first definition.
(I've seen this before)
'call from pond life?' is the second definition.
'quack' can be an answer for 'call' (thesaurus). I'm not sure about the 'from pond life?' bit.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for quack that I've seen before include "may get called across the pond" , "Charlatan - cry of duck" , "Sound like a duck" , "Bogus doctor" , "phoney" .)