Young lady changed date after time is reported incorrectly (9)
I believe the answer is:
misstated
'reported incorrectly' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with communicating as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'young lady changed date after time' is the wordplay.
'young lady' becomes 'miss' (term of address for a young woman).
'changed' indicates anagramming the letters.
'after' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'time' becomes 't' (abbreviation).
'date' anagrammed gives 'ated'.
'ated' put after 't' is 'tated'.
'miss'+'tated'='MISSTATED'
'is' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for misstated that I've seen is " Set forth wrongly".)