Rustle up new business behind County Court (7)
I believe the answer is:
concoct
'rustle up' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are verbs in their base form.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'new business behind county court' is the wordplay.
'new' becomes 'n' (common abbreviation eg NT for New Testament).
'business' becomes 'co' (short for company).
'behind' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'county' becomes 'co'.
'court' becomes 'ct' (abbreviation used in road names).
'n'+'co'='nco'
'nco' after 'co' is 'conco'.
'conco'+'ct'='CONCOCT'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for concoct that I've seen before include "Invent (a story/plan)" , "Invent, devise" , "Fabricate" , "cook" , "Invent (a story)" .)