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Reckless and undisciplined nurse given instruction at last (12)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

unrestrained

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'reckless' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?

'undisciplined nurse given instruction at last' is the wordplay.
'undisciplined' is an anagram indicator.
'given' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'instruction' becomes 'rained' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'last' says to take the final letters.
The final letter of 'at' is 't'.
'nurse' is an anagram of 'unres'.
'rained' after 't' is 'trained'.
'unres'+'trained'='UNRESTRAINED'

'and' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for unrestrained that I've seen before include "Without control" , "Wild" , "abandoned" , "Unchecked" , "Not restricted" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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