Steal fruit from rotten curs and a politician (6)
I believe the answer is:
scrump
'steal fruit' is the definition.
The definition suggests a verb in its base form which matches the answer.
'rotten curs and a politician' is the wordplay.
'rotten' indicates anagramming the letters.
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'a politician' becomes 'mp'.
'curs' with letters rearranged gives 'scru'.
'scru'+'mp'='SCRUMP'
'from' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for scrump that I've seen before include "Steal (fruit) from an orchard" , "Nick in garden" , "steal from farmer" , "Nick apples" , "Steal apples from trees" .)