Anagram indicator
shatter
“shatter” 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
- shatter, shatters, shattered, shattering
- Subtlety
- moderate
- Part of speech
- verb, adjective, participle
- Themes
- destruction
“Shattered, got there as one (8)”
Answer: TOGETHER
Definition: "as one" — acting in unison, jointly. "Shattered" signals an anagram. The fodder is "got there" — eight letters: G, O, T, T, H, E, R, E. Rearranging those letters gives the answer. GOT THERE shuffled spells TOGETHER.
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