Film following flyer sent up and left to drop (7)
I believe the answer is:
driblet
'to drop' is the definition.
(synonyms)
'film following flyer sent up and left' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'film' could be 'et' (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial) and 'et' is found within the answer.
'left' could be 'l' (common abbreviation) and 'l' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'drib' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for driblet that I've seen before include "tiny stream" , "Thin stream or drop of liquid" , "small amount" , "Very small quantity of a liquid" , "tiny bit" .)