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Lead astray (9)

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misgovern

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'lead astray' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are verbs in their base form, I can't understand how one could define the other.

'lead' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'lead' could be 'go' (synonyms) and 'go' is located in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for misgovern that I've seen before include "Rule badly" , "rule unfairly" , "run badly" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.
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