Fyrm Fouroux's cryptic clue answer

The answer to the clue is LASER The clue follows the style of the UK broadsheet newspaper cyrptic crossword clues. Since this is not a style used much elsewhere, an account of the solution is given below.

Mowhawks end in real scramble for intense light emitter (5 letters)

Mowhawks this word was taken as a loose link from the previous forum post
end this suggests that you need to take the 'end' of Mowhawks (which in this case is the letter 's')
in this means that you are likely to have to stuff whatever came from the previous bit of the clue into the next word in the clue (get ready to stuff 's')
real this is the word into which you stuff or attach 's'
scramble this is an anagram command (so you 'scramble' real+s)
for this often signals a definition of the solution word (in other words, what you get when you have done all the above)
intense light emitter this is the definiton that has been flagged up by 'for'

Put all that together and you get the answer LASER which is both an anagram of real+s and an intense light emitter.

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