Rather ancient anger returning in Georgia with scheme falling short (9)
I believe the answer is:
geriatric
'falling short' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are adjectives, I cannot understand how they can define each other.
'rather ancient anger returning in georgia with scheme' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'georgia' could be 'ge' (abbreviation for the European country) and 'ge' is found within the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for geriatric that I've seen before include "Relating to old people" , "Oldie" , "treatment of the elderly" , "past it" .)