Clumsily runs poll in The Sun that's sent up (7)
I believe the answer is:
lollops
'clumsily runs' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are verbs in their -s form, I don't understand how one could define the other.
'poll in the sun that's sent up' is the wordplay.
'in the' is an insertion indicator.
'sun' becomes 'sol' (Latin for 'sun').
'that's sent up' says the letters should be written in reverse.
'poll' inserted into 'sol' is 'spollol'.
'spollol' back-to-front is 'LOLLOPS'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for lollops that I've seen before include "Lounges" , "Lopes" , "Bounds clumsily" .)