🔀 Anagram

Letters of one or more words are rearranged to form the answer. Look for an indicator like "broken", "mixed", or "scrambled" near the fodder words.

Here's Cordelia's trick for anagrams: count the letters. The answer length is in the brackets — so look for a word or combination of words in the clue that has exactly that many letters. That's your fodder. Then look for an indicator word nearby — something like "broken", "mixed", "wild", or "out" that signals rearrangement. Once you've found the fodder, don't try to rearrange the letters in your head — use the anagram solver. Open Solver tools (top right), click the Anagram tab, then click the fodder words in the clue. The letters appear as chips. Hit Solve and you'll get only real words back — no nonsense.

Look through these examples — you'll start spotting the pattern after just a few. When you're ready, try the practice mode. — Cordelia

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Definition Wordplay Fodder Unhighlighted = indicator or linking word

Guess teatimes varied (8)

I'd augment bust size (9)

Horrible Gaultier tie (8)

Heats pan to cook game bird (8)

Their woes compounded if not (9)

Lops head off flowering plant (8)

Create concoction of green tea (8)

Dynamic change, hot I gathered (4-6)

Fuel from isle Oscar lied about (6,3)

Has Cnut ordered halt mid-flow? (7)

Crackers seem moist on occasion (9)

Ban lace pants to create stability (7)

Hires out a buggy producing permit (9)

Tender wound initially moist hardens (8)

Decree nisi without one moving house (9)

Picked up perfumes for a little cash (5)

Joint below or bowel given treatment (5)

One miracle involved splendid ritual (10)

Smashing atoms up is creating element (9)

Remedy sipped, say, getting indigestion (9)

Reconstruct flue with us? That'll be handy (6)

Soap star needs to work on posture finally (10)

Terribly poor signs seeing medical forecast (9)

Catches slowcoach delaying son’s appearance (5)

Maoists argued furiously blocking road south (3,6)

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