Anagram indicator

fashion

“fashion” 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
fashion, fashions, fashioned, fashioning
Subtlety
subtle
Part of speech
verb, adjective, participle
Themes
art, construction, fashion
Worked example

Servant fashioning a peg (4)

Answer: PAGE

Anagram clue. Definition "Servant" (start) = PAGE, a young attendant. Wordplay: anagram ("fashioning") of the fodder "a peg" (A+P+E+G) rearranges to PAGE. The indicator "fashioning" is buried in the surface, which reads as a servant making a wooden peg — misdirecting toward carpentry rather than the rearrangement.


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