Portray the scatterbrained Nubian, maybe, and muck about? (3,3,5,4)
I believe the answer is:
act the giddy goat
'portray the scatterbrained nubian maybe and muck about?' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't judge whether it can be defined by this definition.
'portray the scatterbrained nubian maybe and muck about?' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'portray' could be 'act' (I've seen this in another clue) and 'act' is located in the answer.
'the' could be 't' (the is pronounced as a 't' sound in some dialects) and 't' is found in the answer.
'maybe' could be 'i' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'i' is found within the answer.
'about?' could be 'a' (abbreviation in Chambers) and 'a' is present in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for act the giddy goat that I've seen is " Clown".)