Careers masters forced to take care of PE department — that's not right! (9)
I believe the answer is:
stampedes
'careers' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both acts as well as being plural nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'masters forced to take care of pe department that's not right' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'pe' is found in the answer.
'department' could be 'd' (abbreviation eg in MOD Ministry of Defence) and 'd' is found in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for stampedes that I've seen before include "Flights of frightened cattle" , "Wild headlong rushes of animals" , "Headlong rush of crowds" , "Takes flight like frightened cattle" .)