Death? Subsequently died having ingested Ecstasy (3,3)
I believe the answer is:
the end
'death?' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both acts as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'subsequently died having ingested ecstasy' is the wordplay.
'subsequently' becomes 'then' (synonyms).
'died' becomes 'd' (abbreviation next to the year of someone's death).
'having ingested' is an insertion indicator.
'ecstasy' becomes 'E' (informal term for the drug).
'then'+'d'='thend'
'thend' placed around 'e' is 'THE END'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for the end that I've seen before include "special person" , "Final words on screen" , "Words on last page" , "last line of story" .)