Cheekily rewrote poetry and put things the other way around? (8)
I believe the answer is:
reversed
'cheekily rewrote' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with communicating as well as being past participle verbs.
Perhaps they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'poetry and put things the other way around?' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'poetry' could be 'vers' (I've seen this before) and 'vers' is present in the answer.
'way' could be 'e' (Compass direction - East) and 'e' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'red' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for reversed that I've seen before include "Put back to front" , "transposed" , "Overruled" , "Put backwards" , "Turned round" .)