Had a ball perhaps in The Man from Clare with leading director (6)
I believe the answer is:
danced
'had a ball perhaps' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.
'man from clare with leading director' is the wordplay.
'man' becomes 'dan' (**).
'from' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'clare' becomes 'ce' (I've seen this in other clues).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'leading' says to take the initial letters.
The initial letter of 'director' is 'd'.
'dan'+'ce'+'d'='DANCED'
'in the' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for danced that I've seen before include "Tripped the light fantastic" , "Moved to music" .)