Get cleared in order to follow the Customs Officer's advice (7)
I believe the answer is:
declare
'get' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with communicating as well as being verbs in their base form.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'cleared in order to follow the customs officer's advice' is the wordplay.
'cleared' can be anagrammed to 'DECLARE'.
However, I am not clear how this is indicated.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for declare that I've seen before include "say" , "Profess" , "Make a statement, to customs perhaps" , "Aver, state" , "Make clearly known" .)