Muse quiet in tree swaying at country club? (7)
I believe the answer is:
euterpe
'muse' is the definition.
(mythical muse of music)
'quiet in tree swaying at country club?' is the wordplay.
'quiet' becomes 'p' (music symbol for 'piano', ie soft or quiet).
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'swaying' is an anagram indicator (letters swaying or moving around).
'at' means one lot of letters go next to another (I've seen this in other clues).
'country club?' becomes 'EU' (whimsically speaking, a club made up of countries).
'tree' is an anagram of 'tere'.
'p' going into 'tere' is 'terpe'.
'terpe' put after 'eu' is 'EUTERPE'.
(Other definitions for euterpe that I've seen before include "Musical Muse" , "inspiring female" , "One of the Muses" , "Inspiring goddess" , "Muse of lyric poetry and music" .)