Call some taxis to a house as a prank (4)
I believe the answer is:
hoax
'prank' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'call some taxis to a' is the wordplay.
'call' becomes 'ho' (historical exclamation used to attract attention).
'some' indicates the central letters.
'to' means one lot of letters go next to another (I've seen this in other clues).
The centre of 'taxis' is 'x'.
'x' after 'a' is 'ax'.
'ho'+'ax'='HOAX'
'house as a' acts as a link.
This may not be right. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for hoax that I've seen before include "Practical joke" , "Fake, such as Piltdown Man" , "Deceptive trick, could be malicious" , "Fool" , "Malicious act" .)