Teaches them to make fantastic suede cat (8)
I believe the answer is:
educates
'teaches' is the definition.
(educating is a kind of teaching)
'fantastic suede cat' is the wordplay.
'fantastic' indicates an anagram (a fantastic or improbable ordering of the letters).
'suede'+'cat'='suedecat'
'suedecat' is an anagram of 'EDUCATES'.
'them to make' is the link.
This may not be correct. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for educates that I've seen before include "Instructs, teaches" , "Trains, teaches" , "Trains the mind and abilities" .)