Daughter is cleaned and combed — and dumped! (9)
I believe the answer is:
discarded
'dumped' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with ownership as well as being past participle verbs.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'daughter is cleaned and combed' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'daughter' could be 'd' (genealogical abbreviation) and 'd' is present in the answer.
'is' is within the answer.
'combed' could be 'carded' (I've seen this in another clue) and 'carded' is present in the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'and' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for discarded that I've seen before include "Cast aside, threw away" , "Disposed of" , "Dad's cider (anag) - chucked out" , "scrapped" , "Rejected" .)