Finish pass with sweetheart swallowing drinks (8)
I believe the answer is:
collapse
'finish' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both acts as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'pass with sweetheart swallowing drinks' is the wordplay.
'pass' becomes 'col' (col is a term for a mountain pass).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'sweetheart' becomes 'e' (the middle letter or heart of 'sweet').
'swallowing' indicates putting letters inside.
'drinks' becomes 'laps' (lapping is a kind of drinking).
'col'+'e'='cole'
'cole' going around 'laps' is 'COLLAPSE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for collapse that I've seen before include "Fall down or lose strength suddenly" , "fold" , "Fall down or cave in" , "Go to ruin" , "Give way, fail suddenly" .)