Say a craft is calmer regularly (7)
I believe the answer is:
article
'say' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with communicating as well as being verbs in their base form.
Perhaps they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'a craft is calmer regularly' is the wordplay.
'a craft' becomes 'art' (both can mean cunning or trickery).
'regularly' means one should take alternating letters (regularly take one letter, leave next etc.).
'is'+'calmer'='iscalmer'
The alternate letters of 'iscalmer' are 'icle'.
'art'+'icle'='ARTICLE'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for article that I've seen before include "Newspaper feature or a separate thing" , "Possibly the" , "Definite or indefinite determiner" , "Piece in paper" , "A rewritten piece" .)