Put off dance craze that's going round university (10)
I believe the answer is:
discourage
'put' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with communicating as well as being verbs in their base form.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'off dance craze that's going round university' is the wordplay.
'off dance' becomes 'disco' (disco can mean a dance event. I am not sure about the 'off' bit.).
'craze' becomes 'rage' (synonyms).
'that's going round' is an insertion indicator (some letters go around others).
'university' becomes 'U' (abbreviation for university).
'disco'+'rage'='discorage'
'discorage' going around 'u' is 'DISCOURAGE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for discourage that I've seen before include "Put off" , "Deter; dishearten" , "Talk out of" , "Try to stop" , "Cause loss of enthusiasm in (someone)" .)