Plant the thing and make yourself scarce (3,2)
I believe the answer is:
hop it
'plant' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot judge whether this works.
'thing and make yourself scarce' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'thing' could be 'it' and 'it' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'hop' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'the' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for hop it that I've seen before include "split" , "get out quick!" , "Clear off!" , "Leave" , "Go away (colloq.)" .)