Young clerk orders the lad to stop skating (6,3)
I believe the answer is:
office boy
'stop skating' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't understand how one could define the other.
'young clerk orders the lad' is the wordplay.
'young clerk orders' becomes 'office' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'the lad' becomes 'boy' (I've seen this before).
'office'+'boy'='OFFICE-BOY'
'to' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for office boy that I've seen is " gofer".)