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An anagram clue gives you the exact letters of the answer in a jumbled order, plus a word that signals the mix-up — words suggesting disorder, change, or breakage.
“Manage ravaged corn lot (7)”
Answer: CONTROL
Definition: "Manage" — to direct or have command over. "ravaged" signals an anagram. Anagram fodder: "corn lot" (7 letters). Rearranging C-O-R-N-L-O-T gives the answer. CONTROL.
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377 words
- abnormal
- abstract
- adapt
- adjust
- afflict
- after a fashion
- agitate
- ailing
- all over the place
- alter
- alternative
- amiss
- anagram
- another
- arrange
- askew
- assault
- assemble
- astray
- at sea
- awful
- awry
- bad
- bake
- barmy
- bat
- batter
- batty
- bedevil
- bent
- berserk
- bewitch
- bizarre
- blast
- blend
- blitzed
- bloom
- blotto
- blow
- boil
- bombard
- bonkers
- botch
- bowl
- braid
- break
- brew
- build
- bungle
- bust
- calibrate
- change
- chaos
- charm
- chop
- churn
- clumsy
- clutter
- cocktail
- compose
- confuse
- conjure
- construct
- convert
- cook
- corrupt
- crack
- crackers
- crazy
- cripple
- crooked
- crude
- crush
- curious
- curse
- daft
- damage
- dance
- darn
- delirious
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- design
- destroy
- detonate
- devastate
- develop
- different
- dire
- disarray
- diseased
- disorder
- distort
- distress
- disturb
- doctor
- dodgy
- dotty
- draw
- dreadful
- dribble
- drunk
- dubious
- eccentric
- edit
- embroider
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- engineer
- erratic
- erupt
- exchange
- excite
- exotic
- explode
- fabricate
- fake
- fashion
- faulty
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- fiddle
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- fix
- flawed
- fluff
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- fumble
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- garble
- gone bad
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- grind
- grotesque
- gust
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- hammered
- haunt
- havoc
- haywire
- helter-skelter
- hem
- hex
- higgledy-piggledy
- hodgepodge
- hotchpotch
- hurt
- hysterical
- ill
- imperfect
- improper
- improvise
- in a mess
- in a muddle
- in a spin
- in a stew
- in a tangle
- in a whirl
- in chaos
- in disarray
- in disorder
- in pieces
- in ruins
- in trouble
- in turmoil
- incorrect
- inebriated
- infect
- injure
- insane
- inside out
- intoxicated
- irregular
- irritate
- jinx
- jumble
- kick
- knit
- lace
- legless
- liberal
- lit
- loaded
- loopy
- loose
- lunatic
- mad
- madden
- mangle
- maniac
- manic
- manipulate
- manufacture
- mash
- maul
- mayhem
- medley
- melting pot
- mess
- mince
- mishandle
- mishmash
- misinterpret
- misprint
- misquote
- misread
- misspell
- mix
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- muddle
- new
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- nuts
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- odd
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- orchestrate
- original
- other
- out
- out of order
- out of shape
- out of sorts
- outlandish
- overhaul
- paint
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- peculiar
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- perform
- perturb
- pickled
- pie-eyed
- plague
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- plastered
- play
- poor
- possess
- potpourri
- potty
- pound
- process
- quaint
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- radical
- rally
- ravage
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- reallocate
- rearrange
- reassemble
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- recycle
- redistribute
- reel
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- reform
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- remake
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- reorder
- replace
- reshuffle
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- retool
- revise
- revolutionary
- reword
- rework
- rewrite
- rig
- roll
- rough
- rough-and-tumble
- rowdy
- ruin
- run
- savage
- scatter
- score
- scramble
- sculpt
- sew
- shake
- shambles
- shatter
- shuffle
- sick
- sickening
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- sketch
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- sloppy
- sloshed
- smash
- soused
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- spellbound
- spin
- squiffy
- stew
- stir
- stitch
- stoned
- storm
- strange
- suffer
- suspect
- swap
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- tackle
- tailor
- tamper
- tangle
- tanked
- tempestuous
- terrible
- thrash
- tight
- tipsy
- to pieces
- topsy-turvy
- torment
- torpedo
- toss
- transform
- translate
- transplant
- trouble
- tumble
- turbulent
- twist
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- unhinge
- unorthodox
- unravel
- unruly
- unsettle
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- unusual
- unwell
- uproot
- upset
- upside down
- vex
- volley
- wacky
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- weave
- weird
- whip
- whirl
- wild
- wobble
- wonky
- worry
- wound
- wrangle
- wreck
- wrong
- zany
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