English theatre production's ending with Herod falsely made king (9)
I believe the answer is:
enthroned
'made king' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with social activities as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'english theatre production's ending with herod falsely' is the wordplay.
'english' becomes 'E' (abbreviation).
'theatre' becomes 'NT' (National Theatre).
'ending' says to take the final letters (the ending of the word).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'falsely' is an anagram indicator.
The final letter of 'production' is 'n'.
'n' after 'herod' is 'herodn'.
'herodn' anagrammed gives 'hroned'.
'e'+'nt'+'hroned'='ENTHRONED'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for enthroned that I've seen before include "Made bishop" , "Put in place" , "Honourably placed" , "Installed (as monarch)" .)