### Clue: Note as clever? Not half! (6)
### Answer: QUAVER 
 ### Explanation: Definition: Note 
 QUA(as/being/in the capacity of, as in "President Trump qua president was no different from him as a private citizen") + **1st 3 letters deleted from**(…? Not half) "clever".
Defn: … with a specific time value in music.