Get touchy again, bringing rook into centre play (9)
I believe the answer is:
reconnect
'get touchy again' is the definition.
(touch or connect with again)
'rook into centre play' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'rook' could be 'con' (synonyms) and 'con' is found within the answer.
an anagram of 'centre' is 'renect' which is within the left over letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'bringing' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for reconnect that I've seen is " Join together again".)