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A little knowledge of squeeze theory will see you, not declarer, through to a happy conclusion. The golden rule about discarding when under the cosh is throw the suit held on your left. In this case dummy holds two danger suits, but as you can see that a club would establish the whole club suit then you must pitch a diamond. That gives declarer a twelfth trick but because he does not have the necessary entry flexibility in clubs you can never be subjected to a heart/club squeeze for the thirteenth. This is known as a sesqui-squeeze - one iine of defence leads to the loss of one trick and the other to the loss of two tricks - hence one and a half tricks or "sesqui". Had declarer had one low club more and one low diamond fewer then 7NT tick would have been a nice story fr him, but there should have been one anyway..
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