Short note Stateside lawyer returned promptly for example (6)
I believe the answer is:
adverb
'example' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both related to communication as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'short note stateside lawyer returned promptly' is the wordplay.
'short' means to remove the last letter.
'note' becomes 'a' (musical note).
'stateside lawyer' becomes 'DA' (short for district attorney, type of US lawyer).
'returned promptly' becomes 'verb' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'a'+'da'='ada'
'ada' with its final letter taken off is 'ad'.
'ad'+'verb'='ADVERB'
'for' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for adverb that I've seen before include "Word that qualifies another" , ""Quickly" is one, for example" , "Rarely is one" , "-ly word" , "Word modifying an action word" .)