Petition fencing knight errant recited, all over Spain (9)
I believe the answer is:
intercede
'petition' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with communicating as well as being verbs in their base form.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'fencing knight errant recited all over spain' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'knight' could be 'n' (chess) and 'n' is found within the answer.
an anagram of 'recited' is 'iterced' which is within the remaining letters.
'spain' could be 'e' (abbreviation for Espana) and 'e' is present in the answer.
No letters remain.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for intercede that I've seen before include "Plead for one" , "Come between as mediator" , "plead in prayer" , "step in" , "Plead in favour of" .)