Animal biting worker sent back and tagged again (7)
I believe the answer is:
renamed
'tagged again' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with communicating as well as being past participle verbs.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?
'animal biting worker sent back' is the wordplay.
'animal' becomes 'deer' (deer is a type of animal).
'biting' means one lot of letters goes inside another (some letters bite or swallow others).
'worker' becomes 'man' (man is a kind of worker).
'sent back' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'deer' enclosing 'man' is 'demaner'.
'demaner' in reverse letter order is 'RENAMED'.
'and' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for renamed that I've seen is " Meander (anag)".)