Settle down while editor skewers a load of rubbish (5)
I believe the answer is:
bedin
'settle down while' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't tell whether this works.
'editor skewers a load of rubbish' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'editor' could be 'ed' (abbreviation) and 'ed' is found within the answer.
The remaining letters 'bin' 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?
(Another definition for bedin that I've seen is " take root".)