Edits short, miscellaneous red tops around here and misleads them? (10)
I believe the answer is:
misdirects
'misleads them?' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.
'edits short miscellaneous red tops around here' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'red' could be 'r' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'r' is found in the answer.
'around' could be 'c' (abbreviation for 'circa') and 'c' is found within the answer.
an anagram of 'edits' is 'sdiet' which is within the left over letters.
The remaining letters 'mis' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'and' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for misdirects that I've seen is " sends to wrong address".)