Wild situation with heartless devil seen in torchlight (6)
I believe the answer is:
bedlam
'wild situation' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both states of affairs as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'heartless devil seen in torchlight' is the wordplay.
'heartless' means to remove the middle letters.
'seen in' indicates putting letters inside.
'torchlight' becomes 'beam' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'devil' with its centre removed is 'dl'.
'dl' inserted into 'beam' is 'BEDLAM'.
'with' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for bedlam that I've seen before include "Place of uproar or madness" , "Blamed for deafening noise" , "commotion" , "Very noisy confused place" , "Blamed for chaotic situation" .)