Possible Clues:

• Exaggerate
• Give undue importance to
• Give too much airtime, say
• Extra pound in benefit for ham
• Complicate or exaggerate (something)
• Carry too far, as an actor
• Bad thing to do with one's hand
• Give undue importance to a thing of the past to amuse oneself
• Exaggerate one's acting
• Ploy Vera used to get ham