Say, I survive, repelling a harmful spell (4,3)
I believe the answer is:
evil eye
'a harmful spell' is the definition.
'evil eye' can be an answer for 'spell' (thesaurus). I am not certain of the 'a harmful' bit.
'say i survive repelling' is the wordplay.
'say' indicates a 'sounds like' (homophone) clue.
'survive' becomes 'live' (synonyms).
'repelling' says the letters should be written in reverse.
'i' sounds like 'eye'.
'eye'+'live'='eyelive'
'eyelive' reversed gives 'EVIL EYE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for evil eye that I've seen before include "Depraved optic with superstitious curse" , "Optical sort of ancient curse" , "Gaze believed harmful" , "Malign influence" , "Look that can be harmful?" .)