Bequest now met with excitement after death? (9)
I believe the answer is:
endowment
'bequest' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'now met with excitement after death?' is the wordplay.
'with excitement' is an anagram indicator (I've seen this in other clues).
'after' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'death?' becomes 'end' ('end' can be a synonym of 'death').
'now'+'met'='nowmet'
'nowmet' is an anagram of 'owment'.
'owment' after 'end' is 'ENDOWMENT'.
(Other definitions for endowment that I've seen before include "Bequeathed income" , "source of income" , "Gift to an institution" , "Grant" , "A bequest of funding" .)