Make clear in Bury animal loved crossing river (9)
I believe the answer is:
interpret
'make clear' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both related to thinking as well as being verbs in their base form.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'in bury animal loved crossing river' is the wordplay.
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'bury' becomes 'inter' (to inter is to put into the ground).
'animal loved crossing' becomes 'pet' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'river' becomes 'r' (abbreviation for river).
'inter'+'pet'='interpet'
'interpet' going around 'r' is 'INTERPRET'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for interpret that I've seen before include "Translate, make sense of" , "Restate from one language into another" , "Translate, decode" , "Read" , "Construe" .)