Old yet tipsily found after inn in a riot (6)
I believe the answer is:
ninety
'old' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'yet tipsily found after inn in a riot' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
an anagram of 'yet' is 'ety' which is within the answer.
an anagram of 'inn' is 'nin' which is within the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for ninety that I've seen before include "Fourscore and ten" , "Excellent percentage score" , "''Oh, the craic was ... in the Isle of Man'' (The Dubliners)" , "Minutes in a soccer game" , "Cardinal" .)