She saw minks cavorting, resulting in a display of sickly sentimentality (11)
I believe the answer is:
mawkishness
'sentimentality' is the definition.
(I know that mawkishness is a type of sentimentality)
'she saw minks cavorting' is the wordplay.
'cavorting' is an anagram indicator.
'she'+'saw'+'minks'='shesawminks'
'shesawminks' is an anagram of 'MAWKISHNESS'.
'resulting in a display of sickly' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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