Talk with a cigarette end between cracked lips (5)
I believe the answer is:
spiel
'talk' is the definition.
(I know that spiel is a type of talk)
'a cigarette end between cracked lips' is the wordplay.
'end' says to take the final letters.
'between' is an insertion indicator.
'cracked' indicates anagramming the letters.
The final letter of 'cigarette' is 'e'.
'lips' is an anagram of 'spil'.
'e' placed into 'spil' is 'SPIEL'.
'with' is the link.
(Other definitions for spiel that I've seen before include "Salesman's glib patter" , "Sales pitch" , "Glib story" , "Plausible line of talk" , "Glib style of talk associated with salesmen" .)