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
Worked example

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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