Longed for time to end confusion (7)
I believe the answer is:
yearned
'longed for' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'time to end confusion' is the wordplay.
'time' becomes 'year' (I've seen this in other clues).
'to' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'confusion' indicates an anagram.
'end' anagrammed gives 'ned'.
'year'+'ned'='YEARNED'
(Other definitions for yearned that I've seen before include "Desired strongly and persistently" , "Did long" , "Longed, hankered" , "Deanery (anag)" , "Longed to be in deanery" .)