Complain to the authorities about the noise (6)
I believe the answer is:
report
'complain' is the definition.
(reporting is a kind of complaining)
'the authorities about the noise' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'the' could be 't' (the is pronounced as a 't' sound in some dialects) and 't' is found within the answer.
'about' could be 're' (regarding) and 're' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'por' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'to' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for report that I've seen before include "Article" , "shop" , "result of firing?" , "Statement - sound of a gun firing" , "Account, story" .)