I refuse to live over literary wood (4)
I believe the answer is:
ebon
'literary wood' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives. Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'i refuse to live over' is the wordplay.
'i refuse' becomes 'no'.
'to live' becomes 'be' (synonyms).
'over' is a reversal indicator.
'no'+'be'='nobe'
'nobe' reversed gives 'EBON'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for ebon that I've seen before include "Poetic dark" , "Deep black" , "Dark in colour" .)