Stunning woman left making confused sound (5)
I believe the answer is:
babel
'confused sound' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot understand how they can define each other.
'stunning woman left' is the wordplay.
'stunning woman' becomes 'babe' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'left' becomes 'l' (common abbreviation).
'babe'+'l'='BABEL'
'making' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for babel that I've seen before include "Confused hubbub" , "Tower built by Noah's descendants to reach to heaven" , "Vocal confusion" , "Biblical tower site" , "Confused noise - biblical tower" .)