Finished almost well-liked by Edward, but with too many people (13)
I believe the answer is:
overpopulated
'with too many people' is the definition.
The definition suggests a verb in its base form which matches the answer.
'finished almost well-liked by edward' is the wordplay.
'finished' becomes 'over' (over can mean finished or ended).
'almost' means to remove the last letter (almost the whole word is kept).
'well liked' becomes 'popular' (I've seen this before).
'by edward' becomes 'ted' (I am not sure about the 'by' bit.).
'popular' with its final letter taken off is 'popula'.
'over'+'popula'+'ted'='OVERPOPULATED'
'but' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for overpopulated that I've seen is " Having too many people".)