Fainted when court stopped Ned's renovation (7)
I believe the answer is:
swooned
'fainted' is the definition.
('swoon' can be a synonym of 'faint')
'court stopped ned's renovation' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'court' could be 'woo' (both can mean to romance someone) and 'woo' is found within the answer.
The remaining letters 'sned' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'when' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for swooned that I've seen before include "collapsed" , "Fainted" .)