Detective's answer to president put to the test by veto? (10)
I believe the answer is:
disapprove
'veto?' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with communicating as well as being verbs in their base form.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'detective's answer to president put to the test' is the wordplay.
'detective's' becomes 'di's' (Detective Inspector).
'answer' becomes 'a' (abbreviation eg in Q and A).
'to president' becomes 'p' (common abbreviation eg in VP).
'put to the test' becomes 'prove' (I've seen this in another clue).
'dis'+'a'+'p'+'prove'='DISAPPROVE'
'by' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for disapprove that I've seen before include "Not like" , "mind" , "Reject" , "Censure" , "Hold an unfavourable opinion (of something)" .)