Prepare to drive across centre of Barnsley to get contract (5,2)
I believe the answer is:
tense up
'contract' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to bodily activities as well as being verbs in their base form.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'prepare to drive across centre of barnsley' is the wordplay.
'prepare to drive' becomes 'tee up' (teeing up a golf ball before driving it).
'across' indicates putting letters inside.
'centre of' indicates the central letters.
The central letters of 'barnsley' are 'ns'.
'teeup' going around 'ns' is 'TENSE UP'.
'to get' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for tense up that I've seen before include "become edgy" , "become uneasy" , "Become stiff through stress or anxiety" .)