Wife feeding Irish clan cleaned up (5)
I believe the answer is:
swept
'cleaned up' is the definition.
'swept' can be an answer for 'cleaned' (swept up with a broom). I'm unsure of the 'up' bit.
'wife feeding irish clan' is the wordplay.
'wife' becomes 'w' (abbreviation).
'feeding' means one lot of letters goes inside another (one word is fed by another set of letters).
'irish clan' becomes 'sept' (I've seen this in another clue).
'w' put into 'sept' is 'SWEPT'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for swept that I've seen before include "Removed by brushing" , "Used a broom" , "what daily did" , "Searched; cleaned" , "passed proudly" .)