Story told, clear twists around it (7)
I believe the answer is:
recital
'story' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'clear twists around it' is the wordplay.
'twists' indicates an anagram (I've seen 'twisted' mean this).
'around' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'clear' with letters rearranged gives 'recal'.
'recal' enclosing 'it' is 'RECITAL'.
'told' acts as a link.
This may not be correct. It may be part of another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for recital that I've seen before include "Musician's performance" , "Public performance of music" , "Article found in performance" , "Maybe solo musical performance" , "One's performance" .)