Confused, left without wife, taking a sudden turn? (9)
I believe the answer is:
entangled
'confused' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'left without wife taking a sudden turn?' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'left' could be 'l' (common abbreviation) and 'l' is found within the answer.
'a' could be 'an' and 'an' is found in the answer.
'turn?' could be 't' (abbreviation in Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations) and 't' is present 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 entangled that I've seen before include "Involved in complications" , "caught" , "snarled up" , "Confusedly twisted" , "Intertwined; entrapped" .)