Wretched article quickly issued covering India (9)
I believe the answer is:
anguished
'wretched' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'article quickly issued covering india' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'article' could be 'an' (indefinite article) and 'an' is found in the answer.
'india' could be 'i' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.) and 'i' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'gushed' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for anguished that I've seen before include "Distressed mentally" , "Suffering greatly" , "Dolorous" .)