Barney's wife called -- article from Paris ... (7)
I believe the answer is:
wrangle
'barney's' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?
'wife called article from paris' is the wordplay.
'wife' becomes 'w'.
'called' becomes 'rang' (called on the phone).
'article from paris' becomes 'le' (definite article in French).
'w'+'rang'+'le'='WRANGLE'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for wrangle that I've seen before include "Altercation" , "Noisy dispute" , "Argue noisily" , "noisy argument" , "Altercate" .)