News boss engaging people to perform his work? (5)
I believe the answer is:
emend
'perform his work?' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun but the answer is not.
'news boss engaging people' is the wordplay.
'news boss' becomes 'ed' (short for editor).
'engaging' indicates putting letters inside.
'people' becomes 'men' (men are people).
'ed' enclosing 'men' is 'EMEND'.
'to' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for emend that I've seen before include "Modify" , "Remove errors" , "Make correction in written material" , "Correct, revise (text)" , "Make improvements to (text)" .)