Article on my worried misguided wife in operetta (3,5,5)
I believe the answer is:
the merry widow
'operetta' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'article on my worried misguided wife' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'article' could be 'the' (the 'definite article' part of speech) and 'the' is found in the answer.
'on' could be 'o' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'o' is found in the answer.
'wife' could be 'w' and 'w' is found within the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'in' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for the merry widow that I've seen before include "show" , "Franz Lehar operetta" .)