Tough individual playing charades (4,4)
I believe the answer is:
hard case
'tough individual' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether this works.
'playing charades' is the wordplay.
'playing' indicates an anagram.
'charades' is an anagram of 'HARD CASE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for hard case that I've seen before include "challenge to legal team?" , "Tough guy" , "Intractable person" , "Tough person to deal with" , "Brief problem, perhaps" .)