Short chap coming up with unfinished article -- from this direction? (5)
I believe the answer is:
north
'this direction?' is the definition.
(north is a kind of direction)
'short chap coming up with unfinished article' is the wordplay.
'short chap' becomes 'ron' (short for Ronald).
'coming up' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'unfinished' means to remove the last letter.
'article' becomes 'the' (the 'definite article' part of speech).
'ron' back-to-front is 'nor'.
'the' with its final letter taken off is 'th'.
'nor'+'th'='NORTH'
'from' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for north that I've seen before include "Compass point at 0 or 360 degrees" , "Thorn (anag.)" , "usually featured at the top of the charts?" , "who is opposed to East-West partnership?" , "A quarter" .)