About time to stop vice-president making false claim (8)
I believe the answer is:
pretence
'false claim' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both acts as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'about time to stop vice-president' is the wordplay.
'about time' becomes 'ret' (I've seen this in other clues).
'to stop' indicates putting letters inside.
'vice-president' becomes 'pence' (Mike Pence).
'ret' inserted into 'pence' is 'PRETENCE'.
'making' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for pretence that I've seen before include "Acting of making something appear true when it's not" , "it can't be true!" , "Make-believe, or false claim to merit" , "Make-believe, perhaps a phoney claim to status (8)" , "False show; make-believe" .)