Teacher regularly ignoring attempt to go wrong (7)
I believe the answer is:
misstep
'go wrong' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both acts as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?
'teacher regularly ignoring attempt' is the wordplay.
'teacher' becomes 'miss' (a female teacher might be addressed 'miss').
'regularly ignoring' means one should take alternating letters (letters removed at regular intervals).
The alternating letters of 'attempt' are 'tep'.
'miss'+'tep'='MISSTEP'
'to' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for misstep that I've seen before include "Error" , "False move" , "bad move" , "Badly judged move" , "Badly judged footing" .)