Possible Clues:

• Thought of wild enigma in The Papers
• Dine out, entertaining wise men, it's supposed
• Mine's a gin, Edward, or so I thought
• That might have been thought of have been the gain one might make in one dime
• I don't toe the editorial line maybe envisaged
• Not based on fact, dubious
• Fancied a slogan for subversive journalist?
• Fancied symbol of 8, born in confines of island
• 'I'd got game about in this, or thought I had (8)'
• Thought one's opposed to entering the sea