Lead astray (9)
I believe the answer is:
misgovern
'lead astray' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are verbs in their base form, I can't understand how they can define each other.
'lead' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'lead' could be 'go' (synonyms) and 'go' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for misgovern that I've seen before include "rule unfairly" , "run badly" , "Rule badly" .)