Given money, the wealthy may still appear in need! (8)
I believe the answer is:
enriched
'given money' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both related to change as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'wealthy may still appear in need' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'wealthy' could be 'rich' (similar in meaning) and 'rich' is located in the answer.
an anagram of 'need' is 'ened' which is within the remaining letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'the' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for enriched that I've seen before include "Made wealthier" , "Improved in quality - made wealthy" .)