Lay to rest start of appeal by court and work together? (8)
I believe the answer is:
interact
'work together?' is the definition.
(to interact is to connect or work together)
'lay to rest start of appeal by court' is the wordplay.
'lay to rest' becomes 'inter' (synonyms).
'start of' suggests taking the first letters.
'by' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'court' becomes 'ct' (abbreviation used in road names).
The first letter of 'appeal' is 'a'.
'inter'+'a'+'ct'='INTERACT'
'and' is the link.
(Other definitions for interact that I've seen before include "Show effect on each other" , "Mix with each other" , "Affect one another mutually" , "Work with others" , "Combine" .)