Took cover again after uncovering some sort of hurriedness (9)
I believe the answer is:
reinsured
'took' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with communicating as well as being past participle verbs.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?
'cover again after uncovering some sort of hurriedness' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'cover' could be 'reinsure' (reinsuring is a kind of covering) and 'reinsure' is found in the answer.
A single letter 'd' remains which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for reinsured that I've seen is " with cover again".)