Chill got sitting in grass leads to telling off (8)
I believe the answer is:
scolding
'telling off' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with communicating as well as being present participle verbs.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'chill got sitting in grass leads' is the wordplay.
'chill' becomes 'cold' (I've seen this before).
'got sitting' becomes 'sin' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'leads' indicates taking the first letters.
The initial letter of 'grass' is 'g'.
'cold' placed inside 'sin' is 'scoldin'.
'scoldin'+'g'='SCOLDING'
'to' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for scolding that I've seen before include "telling-off" , "Rebuking, berating" , "lecture" .)