Swallowed last of fruit appended to branch (6)
I believe the answer is:
bought
'swallowed last' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both related to thinking as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'fruit appended to branch' is the wordplay.
'fruit' becomes 't' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'appended to' says to put letters next to each other.
'branch' becomes 'bough' (bough is a kind of branch).
't' put after 'bough' is 'BOUGHT'.
'of' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for bought that I've seen before include "Purchased" , "Puchased" , "Obtained" , "paid for" .)