Hush after eating cutlet (7)
I believe the answer is:
silence
'hush' is the definition.
(I know that hush can be written as silence)
'after eating cutlet' is the wordplay.
'after' becomes 'since' (since can mean after a certain time).
'eating' is an insertion indicator.
'cutlet' becomes 'le' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'since' placed around 'le' is 'SILENCE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for silence that I've seen before include "Quiet" , "Lack of sound" , "Secrecy; stillness" , "Absence of racket" , "It is golden, they say" .)