A duke fair with soldiers? Time for change! (10)
I believe the answer is:
adjustment
'a duke fair' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both acts as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'soldiers? time for change' is the wordplay.
'soldiers?' becomes 'men' (men can mean a group of soldiers).
'time' becomes 't' (abbreviation).
'for' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (I've seen this in other clues).
'change' becomes 'adjust' (to adjust is to change).
'men'+'t'='ment'
'ment' put after 'adjust' is 'ADJUSTMENT'.
'with' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for adjustment that I've seen before include "Small change to achieve a desired result" , "Minor modification" , "Ordering" , "Adaptation" , "Fitting" .)