A fine place for dad to do up his shoes! (6)
I believe the answer is:
palace
'do up his shoes' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't see how one could define the other.
'a fine place for dad' is the wordplay.
'a fine place' becomes 'lace' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'for' means one lot of letters go next to another (I've seen this in other clues).
'dad' becomes 'pa' ('pa' can be a synonym of 'dad').
'lace' after 'pa' is 'PALACE'.
'to' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for palace that I've seen before include "Large building" , "large house" , "Head of state's residence" , "See 16" , "Royal house" .)