Article having fallen, these remains smashed? (11)
I believe the answer is:
smithereens
'remains smashed?' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.
'article having fallen these' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'article' could be 'the' (the definite article in English) and 'the' is located in 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 smithereens that I've seen before include "Small fragments of the whole" , "Small broken pieces looked at together" , "Collection of small fragments" , "Tiny fragments" , "broken bits?" .)
