Abnormally short street, one lacking smallest bit of illumination (7)
I believe the answer is:
stunted
'abnormally short' is the definition.
'stunted' can be an answer for 'short' (thesaurus). I'm unsure of the 'abnormally' bit.
'street one lacking smallest bit of illumination' is the wordplay.
'street' becomes 'st' (abbreviation).
'one' becomes 'un' (northern English dialect form of 'one').
'lacking smallest bit of illumination' becomes 'ted' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'st'+'un'+'ted'='STUNTED'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for stunted that I've seen before include "Undersized" , "Retarded in growth" , "Dwarfed, limited" .)
