Anagram indicator
cook
“cook” 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
- cook, cooks, cooked, cooking
- Subtlety
- moderate
- Part of speech
- verb, adjective, participle
- Themes
- cooking
“New beet cooked in the middle (7)”
Answer: BETWEEN
Definition: "in the middle" — meaning between. "cooked" signals an anagram. The fodder is "New beet" (7 letters: N, E, W, B, E, E, T). Rearranging those letters gives BETWEEN.
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