Suggest making a step in the right direction (7)
I believe the answer is:
advance
'right direction' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both acts as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'suggest making a step in' is the wordplay.
'suggest making' becomes 'v' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'step' becomes 'dance step' (synonyms).
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'a'+'dance'='adance'
'v' placed within 'adance' is 'ADVANCE'.
'the' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for advance that I've seen before include "Loan; promotion" , "Move forwards" , "Move along" , "Move ahead" , "Forward - loan - increase" .)