English theatre production's ending with Herod falsely made king (9)
I believe the answer is:
enthroned
'made king' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with social activities as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'english theatre production's ending with herod falsely' is the wordplay.
'english' becomes 'E' (abbreviation as in OED).
'theatre' becomes 'NT' (National Theatre).
'ending' indicates one should take the final letters (the ending of the word).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'falsely' indicates anagramming the letters.
The final letter of 'production' is 'n'.
'n'+'herod'='nherod'
'nherod' anagrammed gives 'hroned'.
'e'+'nt'+'hroned'='ENTHRONED'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for enthroned that I've seen before include "Made bishop" , "Put in place" , "Honourably placed" , "Installed (as monarch)" .)