Wild former lover mentioned in documents? (7)
I believe the answer is:
excited
'wild' is the definition.
(similar in meaning)
'former lover mentioned in documents?' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'former' could be 'ex' (prefix meaning former or onetime) and 'ex' is present in the answer.
'mentioned' could be 'cited' ('cite' can be a synonym of 'mention') and 'cited' is located in the answer.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for excited that I've seen before include "Animated" , "Hot" , "Worked up" , "moved by emotion" , "in agitated state" .)