Make a fuss in front of awful island houses (6)
I believe the answer is:
create
'make a fuss' is the definition.
(create can mean to make a fuss or commotion)
'front of awful island houses' is the wordplay.
'front of awful' becomes 'a' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'island' becomes 'crete' (Greek island).
'houses' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'a' going inside 'crete' is 'CREATE'.
'in' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for create that I've seen before include "found" , "Produce from nothing" , "institute" , "Concoct" , "Design" .)