Called to attend case of genie inhabiting bedsit? (5)
I believe the answer is:
paged
'called to attend' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this definition defines the answer.
'case of genie inhabiting bedsit?' is the wordplay.
'case of' means to remove the middle letters (outsides of).
'inhabiting' means one lot of letters goes inside another (I've seen this in other clues).
'bedsit?' becomes 'pad' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'genie' with its middle removed is 'ge'.
'ge' inserted into 'pad' is 'PAGED'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for paged that I've seen before include "Called to phone" , "Summoned over a PA system" , "Called a name over a PA system" , "called by Speaker" , "Called over a public address system" .)