Lads worried about English contracts (5)
I believe the answer is:
deals
'contracts' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both acts as well as being plural nouns.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?
'lads worried about english' is the wordplay.
'worried' is an anagram indicator.
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'english' becomes 'e' (abbreviation).
'lads' anagrammed gives 'dals'.
'dals' enclosing 'e' is 'DEALS'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for deals that I've seen before include "Trades" , "Passes cards around" , "Hands around the cards" , "Distributes playing cards" , "Business transactions" .)