Best way to get out of debt (5)
I believe the answer is:
repay
'out of debt' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with communicating as well as being verbs in their base form.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'best way to' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'best' could be 'a' and 'a' is present in the answer.
'way' could be 'e' (Compass direction - East) and 'e' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
'get' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for repay that I've seen before include "Refund or reward" , "Reimburse" , "Requite" , "Quite old" , "Do or give in return" .)