Hectic minutes followed by some maths (7)
I believe the answer is:
madding
'hectic' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?
I don't understand how the rest of the clue works.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for madding that I've seen before include "Far from the -- Crowd (Hardy)" , "See 1" .)