Whistled stylish intros from Elgar and Debussy (7)
I believe the answer is:
swished
'whistled' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with motion as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'stylish intros from elgar and debussy' is the wordplay.
'stylish' becomes 'swish' (similar in meaning).
'intros from' says to take the initial letters (the introduction to each word).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'debussy' becomes 'd' (this could be a standard abbreviation I've not previously seen).
The initial letter of 'elgar' is 'e'.
'swish'+'e'+'d'='SWISHED'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for swished that I've seen is " Shaken with whistling".)