Do tailoring work, being a natural for it (3,3)
I believe the answer is:
cut out
'do' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with creating things as well as being verbs in their base form.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'tailoring work being a natural for it' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'being' could be 'tout' (tout is a kind of being) and 'tout' is located in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for cut out that I've seen before include "Stop" , "Automatic safety circuit-breaker" , "Cease operating" , "Excise" , "25 [FAIL]" .)