Admit the account needs information (11)
I believe the answer is:
acknowledge
'admit' is the definition.
(I know that admit can be written as acknowledge)
'account needs information' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'account' could be 'ac' (abbreviation) and 'ac' is located in the answer.
'information' could be 'knowledge' (I've seen this before) and 'knowledge' is located in the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'the' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for acknowledge that I've seen before include "Show recognition of" , "Express thanks for" , "Confess" , "Admit the truth of (something)" , "Admit - recognise - thank" .)