Old intimate burdened by a lost bind (7)
I believe the answer is:
astrict
'bind' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are verbs in their base form.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
I can't explain the remainder of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for astrict that I've seen is " Compress".)
I've seen this clue in The Sunday Times and The Times.
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