King overwhelmed with sadness after son blinded (5)
I believe the answer is:
swore
'blinded' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are past participle verbs, I cannot see how one could define the other.
'king overwhelmed with sadness after son' is the wordplay.
'king' becomes 'r' (r is abbreviation for rex).
'overwhelmed with' indicates putting letters inside (I've seen this in other clues).
'sadness' becomes 'woe' (woe is a kind of sadness).
'after' says to put letters next to each other.
'son' becomes 's'.
'r' inserted into 'woe' is 'wore'.
'wore' after 's' is 'SWORE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for swore that I've seen before include "used bad language" , "Uttered profanities or avowed" , "Blasphemed" , "Took oath or cursed" .)