Staggered to see article went off? About time (9)
I believe the answer is:
astounded
'staggered' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'article went off? about time' is the wordplay.
'article' becomes 'a' (the indefinite article in English).
'went off?' becomes 'sounded' ('sound' can be a synonym of 'go'. I am not sure about the 'off?' bit.).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'time' becomes 't' (abbreviation).
'sounded' going around 't' is 'stounded'.
'a'+'stounded'='ASTOUNDED'
'to see' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for astounded that I've seen before include "Amazed" , "Sound date changed and astonished" , "disconcerted" , "Speechless" , "Knocked for six" .)