Poor dame with IOU asked for milk? (7)
I believe the answer is:
miaoued
'asked for milk?' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with communicating as well as being past participle verbs.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'poor dame with iou' is the wordplay.
'poor' is an anagram indicator.
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'dame' put after 'iou' is 'ioudame'.
'ioudame' with letters rearranged gives 'MIAOUED'.
Can you help me to learn more?
I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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