Semi-retired US prison boss given notice (6)
I believe the answer is:
warned
'given notice' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with communicating as well as being past participle verbs.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'semi-retired us prison boss' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'retired' could be 'r' (abbreviation) and 'r' is present in the answer.
'boss' could be 'ed' (short for editor - newspaper boss) and 'ed' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'wan' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for warned that I've seen before include "Cautioned about Andrew" , "Notified in advance" , "Notified of potential danger" , "Put on the alert" .)