Possibly a disastrous recital (7)

I believe the answer is:

article

'possibly a' is the definition.
('a' is the indefinite article in English)

'disastrous recital' is the wordplay.
'disastrous' indicates an anagram.
'recital' is an anagram of 'ARTICLE'.

(Other definitions for article that I've seen before include "Newspaper piece" , "Definite or indefinite determiner" , "What might be illustrated by a" , "Object - piece of writing" , "Newspaper feature or a separate thing" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.

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