Internet idea receives small uptick making entrance (9)
I believe the answer is:
mesmerise
'entrance' is the definition.
('entrance'->'mesmerize' is in my internal thesaurus and 'ize'->'ise')
'internet idea receives small uptick' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'small' could be 'sm' and 'sm' is present in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'making' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for mesmerise that I've seen before include "Transfix" , "Fascinate" , "Hypnotise, spellbind" .)