Reticent type love ancient city commotion? (7)
I believe the answer is:
clamour
'commotion?' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot see how one could define the other.
'reticent type love ancient city' is the wordplay.
'reticent type' becomes 'clam' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'love' becomes 'o' (love means zero in tennis).
'ancient city' becomes 'ur'.
'clam'+'o'+'ur'='CLAMOUR'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for clamour that I've seen before include "Complaints" , "Hue and cry" , "Loud noise of shouting" , "row" , "Loud confused noise" .)