Anagram indicator
engineer
“engineer” 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
- engineer, engineers, engineered, engineering
- Subtlety
- subtle
- Part of speech
- verb, adjective, participle
- Themes
- construction
“Rub and row engineered where rabbits hide (6)”
Answer: BURROW
Anagram ("engineered") of the fodder RUB + ROW gives BURROW (letters B,U,R,R,O,W). The definition "where rabbits hide" sits at the end. The indicator is buried as the main verb of the surface sentence, and "and" binds the fodder into a natural phrase, misdirecting toward a story of friction and a quarrel / construction work.
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