Sign man potted overwhelms beginner on Crucible floor (6)
I believe the answer is:
beckon
'crucible floor' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with human feelings as well as being verbs in their base form.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'sign man potted overwhelms beginner on' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'man' could be 'beck' and 'beck' is found within the answer.
'on' is within the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for beckon that I've seen before include "Summon with a wave" , "Make signs to summon" , "Signal forward" , "Summon with hand gesture" , "Summon with finger gesture" .)