High-pitched sound starts to bother ladies aboard plane? (6)
I believe the answer is:
treble
'high-pitched' is the definition.
('treble' can be similar in meaning to 'high-pitched')
'starts to bother ladies aboard plane?' is the wordplay.
'starts to' indicates taking the first letters.
'aboard' indicates putting letters inside.
'plane?' becomes 'tree' (I've seen this before**).
The first letters of 'bother ladies' is 'bl'.
'bl' placed into 'tree' is 'TREBLE'.
'sound' acts as a link.
This may not be correct. It may be part of another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for treble that I've seen before include "Triple - high-pitched" , "High-frequency (radio control knob)" , "boy in church choir" , "Boy chorister" , "High voice; occurring three times" .)