Though awfully good and stylish, it's criminal (6)
I believe the answer is:
piracy
'criminal' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot understand how one could define the other.
'though awfully good and stylish' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'good' could be 'pi' (old-fashioned term for pious) and 'pi' is found within the answer.
The remaining letters 'racy' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'it's' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for piracy that I've seen before include "theft" , "Robbery on the high seas" , "Illegal copying" , "Act of plagiarism" , "Robbery at sea or of copyright" .)