Increasing tips from crossword's relaxed editor on series of clues? (8)
I believe the answer is:
crescent
'increasing' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'tips from crossword's relaxed editor on series of clues?' is the wordplay.
'tips from' indicates taking the first letters (I've seen 'tip from' mean this).
'on' says to put letters next to each other.
'series of clues?' becomes 'scent' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
The first letters of 'crosswords relaxed editor' is 'cre'.
'cre'+'scent'='CRESCENT'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for crescent that I've seen before include "Young-moon shape" , "Curved row of houses" , "Waxing process could show one" , "Shape of new(ish) moon" , "Semi-circular shape" .)