Go beyond an alfresco celebration (5)
I believe the answer is:
outdo
'go' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to competing as well as being verbs in their base form.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'beyond an alfresco celebration' is the wordplay.
'beyond' says to put letters next to each other.
'an alfresco' becomes 'out' (an alfresco meal is eaten outside).
'celebration' becomes 'do' (I've seen this in other clues).
'out' next to 'do' is 'OUTDO'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for outdo that I've seen before include "Perform better than, be superior to" , "Exceed" , "going to top?" , "Surpass - overshadow - excel" , "Go one beter than, surpass" .)