Obstruct improvement to tent price (9)
I believe the answer is:
intercept
'obstruct' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with contact as well as being verbs in their base form.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'improvement to tent price' is the wordplay.
'tent price' can be anagrammed to 'INTERCEPT'.
However, I'm unsure how the anagram is indicated.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for intercept that I've seen before include "cut off" , "Stop a moving object" , "Arrest" , "point on graph" , "Stop in transit" .)