Lancashire team's brief, speedy passage of play (6)
I believe the answer is:
presto
'play' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives. Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?
I can't explain the remainder of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for presto that I've seen before include "rapidly" , "Very fast (mus.)" , "(Musically) fast" , "hey......,cries the magician" , "Moving quickly" .)