At the end of the day, empty out immense variety of bedclothes (7)
I believe the answer is:
nightie
'variety of bedclothes' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?
'at the end of the day empty out immense' is the wordplay.
'at' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'the end of the day' becomes 'night' (night follows day).
'empty out' means to remove the middle letters (I've seen 'emptied out' mean this (the inside letters are emptied out)).
'immense' with its middle removed is 'ie'.
'night' next to 'ie' is 'NIGHTIE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for nightie that I've seen before include "one put on after dark" , "What retiring lady assumes" , "Light sleeping gown" , "worn by some retired people" , "Sleeping garment" .)