A delightful experience? Wrong to pen diary without content (5)
I believe the answer is:
idyll
'a delightful experience?' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both related to natural events as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'wrong to pen diary without content' is the wordplay.
'wrong' becomes 'ill' (I've seen this in another clue).
'to pen' is an insertion indicator.
'without content' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters).
'diary' with its middle removed is 'dy'.
'ill' going around 'dy' is 'IDYLL'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for idyll that I've seen before include "Perfect situation" , "Pastoral story" , "Quiet period" , "Scene of happy innocence" , "Pictorial poem" .)