Officially approved of minor getting in cot? (7)
I believe the answer is:
blessed
'officially approved' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with communicating as well as being past participle verbs.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'minor getting in cot?' is the wordplay.
'minor' becomes 'less' (I've seen this before).
'getting in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'cot?' becomes 'bed' (cot is a type of bed).
'less' going into 'bed' is 'BLESSED'.
'of' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for blessed that I've seen before include "Endowed" , "worthy of respect" , "in heaven" , "Consecrated" , "Happy; beatified" .)