### Clue: Murdoch's uneven coverage of air-raids (4)
### Answer: IRIS 
 ### Explanation: Definition: Murdoch
 "air-raids " **minus its 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th letters**(uneven coverage of …;covering the letters in the odd positions in the word).
Defn: Given name of Dame Murdoch, author of, amongst others, The Sea, The Sea, a Booker Prize winner.