Crook headhunts pastor to solicit donations (4,3,3,5)
I believe the answer is:
pass the hat round
'solicit donations' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether this works.
'crook headhunts pastor' is the wordplay.
'crook' is an anagram indicator (a crooked version of the letters).
'headhunts'+'pastor'='headhuntspastor'
'headhuntspastor' anagrammed gives 'PASS THE HAT ROUND'.
'to' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for pass the hat round that I've seen before include "getting deerstalker to circulate?" , "What some collectors do" , "causing revolution in Panama?" , "Collect money" .)