Pause as the tea is made (8)
I believe the answer is:
hesitate
'pause' is the definition.
(I know that pause can be written as hesitate)
'the tea is made' is the wordplay.
'made' indicates anagramming the letters.
'the'+'tea'+'is'='theteais'
'theteais' anagrammed gives 'HESITATE'.
'as' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for hesitate that I've seen before include "Vacillate" , "Be in two minds" , "Do this perhaps to be lost" , "Falter, delay" , "Stall" .)