Lockdown? End of this in stormy April, say (9)
I believe the answer is:
paralysis
'lockdown? end of this in stormy april say' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot understand how one could define the other.
'end of this in stormy april say' is the wordplay.
'end of' indicates one should take the final letters.
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'stormy' indicates an anagram.
The last letter of 'this' is 's'.
'april'+'say'='aprilsay'
'aprilsay' anagrammed gives 'paralyis'.
's' going into 'paralyis' is 'PARALYSIS'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for paralysis that I've seen before include "Inability to act/function" , "Inability to move" , "stoppage?" , "inability to act" , "Loss of bodily movement" .)