I have surface I like for a cryptic clue I want to write that is of the form:
outside-word inside-word indicator
Something like:
Fix railway without cat
F EL IX
Or
Crafts day about Monday to Friday
WORK DAY S
If these exact clues don't work, but this formation would work otherwise, please give an example.
I think that if the indicator is one that is actually used in such a way in English, then it's fair to use that way in a clue also. I can't think of too many such with the desired order of ⟨outside-word⟩ ⟨inside-word⟩ ⟨indicator⟩, but…
One is the formulation "emphasis added" (or "italics supplied", "italicization supplied", "boldfacing supplied", "emphasis supplied", etc.). It's used after a quotation that includes an indication of emphasis (like italics) and shows that that indication was supplied by the quoter and was not in the original authority. A cryptic clue that uses such a phrase:
"Faded (as in jeans) has gone the way of the dodo" (emphasis supplied). (10)
DISTRESSED = DIED (STRESS supplied)
Another is the formulation "⟨object⟩ (batteries included)". For example:
Former physiotherapist (batteries included) (4)
PAST = PT (As included)
And another, thanks to Deusovi, is "⟨outside-word⟩, ⟨inside-word⟩ added". (Indeed, there are other words you can use instead of "added"; but the comma is, I think, desirable.) For example (also Deusovi's):
"Style", he added, "doesn't look very good." (7)
CLASS, HE added = CLASHES
