Creep furtively around shopping centre for some light conversation? (5,4)
I believe the answer is:
small talk
'some light conversation?' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'creep furtively around shopping centre' is the wordplay.
'creep furtively' becomes 'stalk' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'around' indicates putting letters inside.
'shopping centre' becomes 'mall' (a mall is a large shopping complex).
'stalk' going around 'mall' is 'SMALL-TALK'.
'for' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for small talk that I've seen before include "chattering" , "Polite conversation on trivial matters" , "casual conversation" , "Social conversation on unimportant subjects" , "Unimportant prattle" .)