Complete cane broken: something to say? (9)
I believe the answer is:
utterance
'to say?' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'complete cane broken something' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'complete' could be 'utter' (both can mean total) and 'utter' is found in the answer.
an anagram of 'cane' is 'ance' which is located in the answer.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for utterance that I've seen before include "Something said" , "sermon, say" , "Statement" , "Expression in speech" , "Remark" .)