Tea for audience coming in, chef promises (7)
I believe the answer is:
commits
'promises' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with communicating as well as being verbs in their -s form.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'tea for audience coming in chef' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'tea' could be 't' (I've seen this in other clues) and 't' is found in the answer.
'chef' could be 'commis' (I have seen 'Junior chef ' mean 'commis' so perhaps 'chef' could also mean 'commis') and 'commis' is found in the remaining letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for commits that I've seen is " Carries out (a crime)".)