Desperate attempt to survive Skegness? (4,6)
I believe the answer is:
last resort
'desperate attempt' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both acts as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'survive skegness?' is the wordplay.
'survive' becomes 'last' (synonyms).
'skegness?' becomes 'resort' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'last'+'resort'='LAST RESORT'
'to' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for last resort that I've seen before include "when everything else has failed?" , "Final expedient" , "When all else fails, try this" .)