The Spanish in time will get put off (5)
I believe the answer is:
delay
'put off' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'the spanish in time' is the wordplay.
'the spanish' becomes 'el'.
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'time' becomes 'day' (day is a kind of time**).
'el' put inside 'day' is 'DELAY'.
'will get' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for delay that I've seen before include "Defer; make late" , "Postpone, defer" , "Temporise" , "Hold-up, time lag" , "Hold back" .)