Perform joke, mostly in stage turn (6)
I believe the answer is:
acquit
'perform' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with social activities as well as being verbs in their base form.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'joke mostly in stage turn' is the wordplay.
'joke' becomes 'quip' (a quip is a joke or witticism).
'mostly' means to remove the last letter (most but not all of the word).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'stage turn' becomes 'act' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'quip' with its last letter taken off is 'qui'.
'qui' put inside 'act' is 'ACQUIT'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for acquit that I've seen before include "Discharge from court as innocent" , "Absolve" , "Free from captivity, being innocent" , "Declare (someone) not guilty of a crime" , "Clear of a crime" .)
