Lawyer in front of crowd indulging in wordplay? (8)
I believe the answer is:
scrabble
'indulging in wordplay?' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both acts as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'lawyer in front of crowd' is the wordplay.
'lawyer in front of' becomes 'sc' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'crowd' becomes 'rabble' (rabble is a kind of crowd).
'sc'+'rabble'='SCRABBLE'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for scrabble that I've seen before include "Popular board word-game" , "Disorderly struggle" , "Board game with tiles" , "Very popular word-board gane" , "Scratch - grope - board game" .)