Arrest action badly after beginning of project? (13)
I believe the answer is:
procrastinate
'arrest action badly after beginning of project?' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.
'arrest action badly after beginning of project?' is the wordplay.
'badly' indicates anagramming the letters.
'after' says to put letters next to each other.
'beginning of' indicates taking the first letters.
The initial letter of 'project' is 'p'.
'arrest'+'action'='arrestaction'
'arrestaction' is an anagram of 'rocrastinate'.
'rocrastinate' after 'p' is 'PROCRASTINATE'.
(Other definitions for procrastinate that I've seen before include "Put off what should be done now" , "Delay taking action" , "Stall" , "Dilly-dally" , "Put off till later" .)