Father has to confess and make headlines (5)
I believe the answer is:
frown
'make headlines' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't see how one could define the other.
'father has to confess' is the wordplay.
'father' becomes 'fr'.
'has' says to put letters next to each other.
'to confess' becomes 'own' (I've seen this before).
'fr'+'own'='FROWN'
'and' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for frown that I've seen before include "Wrinkle one's forehead in disapproval, anger etc" , "Disapproving look" , "Dirty look" , "Knit one's brows" , "gloomy expression" .)