Talk of the old days, short skirts in the playground back in style? (9)
I believe the answer is:
reminisce
'talk of the old days short' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are verbs in their base form, I cannot see how one could define the other.
'skirts in the playground back in style?' is the wordplay.
'skirts' becomes 'minis' (mini skirts).
'in the' indicates putting letters inside.
'playground' becomes 'rec' (short for recreation ground).
'back in' says to take the final letters (the 'back' of the word).
The final letter of 'style' is 'e'.
'minis' placed into 'rec' is 'reminisc'.
'reminisc'+'e'='REMINISCE'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for reminisce that I've seen before include "Look back at events" , "Talk of past events" , "Have fond recollections" , "Think of past events" , "nostalgic" .)