Write badly? (5)
'write' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with creating things as well as being verbs in their base form.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?
I don't understand the remainder of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for forge that I've seen before include "Smith's workshop" , "Fabricate" , "Form by heating and hammering" , "Create by hammering" , "1 across" .)
'write badly' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)
This is the entire clue.
(Other definitions for scrawl that I've seen before include "Write poorly, bad handwriting" , "Messy drawing, possibly" , "Hurried writing" , "Illegible hand" , "Scribbled writing" .)