Anagram indicator
adapt
“adapt” is an anagram indicator in cryptic crosswords.
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.
- Clue types
- Anagram
- Forms
- adapt, adapts, adapted, adapting
- Subtlety
- moderate
- Part of speech
- verb, adjective, participle
- Themes
- transformation
“Seer is adapted for a run of shows (6)”
Answer: SERIES
Definition: "a run of shows" — a sequence of episodes or programmes. "adapted" signals an anagram. Anagram of "Seer is" (S, E, E, R, I, S) rearranges to the answer. Reordering those letters gives SERIES.
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