List of anagram indicators

This is an incomplete list of the most common anagram indicators used in cryptic crosswords. Note that almost any word indicating activity, movement or destruction can be used as an anagram indicator, and many other inflections are possible (e.g. "badly", "erupting").

A

 * abandoned
 * abnormal
 * about
 * absurd
 * abused
 * abysmal
 * accident
 * acrobatics
 * action
 * active
 * adapted
 * adjusted
 * affected
 * afresh
 * after a fashion
 * agile
 * agitated
 * all over the place
 * altered
 * alternative
 * amazing
 * amend
 * amendment
 * amok
 * anarchic
 * anew
 * animated
 * anomalous
 * another
 * anyhow
 * arrange
 * arrangement
 * artful
 * askew
 * assembled
 * assorted
 * astray
 * at random
 * atrocious
 * at sea
 * awful
 * awkward
 * awry

B

 * bad
 * baffled
 * bake
 * bananas
 * barking
 * bastardization
 * bats
 * battered
 * batty
 * beaten
 * beaten up
 * become
 * bedlam
 * belted
 * bend
 * bendy
 * bent
 * berserk
 * bespoke
 * bizarre
 * blasted
 * blazing
 * blend
 * blown up
 * boiled
 * break up
 * broach
 * broadcast
 * broken
 * broth
 * buckled
 * building
 * built
 * bungled
 * burst
 * bust
 * bustling
 * busy
 * butcher
 * Byzantine

C

 * careless
 * carved up
 * cast
 * cavorting
 * changed
 * chaotic
 * choppy
 * chopped up
 * churn
 * clobber
 * cocktail
 * cock-up
 * code
 * compilation
 * complex
 * complicated
 * compose
 * composition
 * concoction
 * confused
 * construction
 * contorted
 * contrived
 * conversion
 * converted
 * convoluted
 * convulsing
 * cooked
 * correct
 * correction
 * corrupt
 * could be
 * crack
 * cracked
 * cracked up
 * crackers
 * craftily
 * crashed
 * crazy
 * criminal
 * crooked
 * crude
 * crumbly
 * crushed
 * cuckoo
 * curious

D

 * daft
 * damaged
 * dancing
 * dashing
 * defective
 * deformed
 * delirious
 * demented
 * demolish
 * deplorable
 * deranged
 * design
 * desperate
 * destroyed
 * destruction
 * desultory
 * devastated
 * developed
 * deviant
 * devilish
 * dicky
 * different
 * disarray
 * disfigured
 * disguised
 * dished out
 * disintegrating
 * disjointed
 * dislocated
 * dismantled
 * disorderly
 * disorganized
 * disorientated
 * dispersed
 * disposed
 * disrupted
 * distilled
 * distorted
 * distraught
 * disturbed
 * disturbance
 * diverse
 * dizzy
 * doctor
 * doddery
 * dodgy
 * done
 * dotty
 * dreadful
 * drifting
 * drunk
 * dubious
 * dynamic

E

 * easily
 * eccentric
 * edited
 * elaborate
 * elastic
 * embroil
 * emendation
 * engineer
 * entangle
 * err
 * errant
 * erratic
 * erroneous
 * erupt
 * eruption
 * evolution
 * exchange
 * excited
 * exercising
 * exotic
 * explode
 * explosive
 * extraordinary
 * extravagant

F

 * fabricated
 * fake
 * false
 * fanatical
 * fancy
 * fantastic
 * fashion
 * fermented
 * fickle
 * fishy
 * fixed
 * flailing
 * flexibly
 * floundering
 * flow
 * fluctuate
 * fluid
 * flurry
 * flustered
 * flying
 * foolish
 * forged
 * form
 * foul
 * fractured
 * frantic
 * freaking out
 * freely
 * frenetic
 * frenzied
 * frenzy
 * fresh
 * freshly
 * frightfully
 * frisky
 * frolicsome
 * fuddled
 * fudge
 * funny
 * furiously

G

 * gaffe
 * gambol
 * garbled
 * giddily
 * going crazy
 * gone
 * go off
 * grim
 * groomed
 * grotesque
 * ground

H

 * hammered
 * haphazard
 * harassed
 * harmed
 * hash
 * havoc
 * haywire
 * hectic
 * hideous
 * higgledy-piggledy
 * high
 * hit
 * horribly
 * horrid
 * horrific
 * hotchpotch
 * hybrid

I

 * idiotic
 * ill-bred
 * imperfect
 * improper
 * inaccurate
 * incorrect
 * inebriated
 * inept
 * injured
 * in motion
 * inordinate
 * in pieces
 * insanely
 * intoxicated
 * intricate
 * invention
 * involved
 * irregular
 * irritated
 * itinerant

J

 * jaunty
 * jazzy
 * jerky
 * jiggling
 * jittery
 * jolting
 * jostling
 * juddering
 * juggle
 * jumble
 * jumbled
 * junk

K

 * kind of
 * kinky
 * knead
 * knocked about
 * knotted

L

 * laboured
 * labyrinthine
 * lawless
 * lax
 * liberally
 * lively
 * loony
 * loosely
 * lost
 * ludicrous
 * lunatic

M

 * mad
 * made-up
 * madness
 * make
 * make up
 * malformed
 * malleably
 * maltreated
 * mangle
 * manic
 * manipulate
 * manoeuvre
 * manufacturing
 * mar
 * mash
 * mashed
 * massage
 * maul
 * maybe
 * mayhem
 * meandering
 * meddle
 * melange
 * mêlée
 * melted
 * mental
 * metamorphosis
 * mince
 * mint
 * misbehaving
 * mischievously
 * misfit
 * misguided
 * mishandled
 * mishap
 * misinterpret
 * mislead
 * mismanagement
 * misplace
 * misprint
 * misrepresented
 * misshapen
 * misspell
 * mistake
 * mistreat
 * misuse
 * mix
 * mixed up
 * mixture
 * mix-up
 * mobile
 * mobilize
 * modelled
 * modification
 * mongrel
 * move
 * movement
 * moving
 * muddled
 * muff
 * mushy
 * mutation
 * mutilation
 * mysterious

N

 * nastily
 * naughty
 * neatened
 * new
 * novel
 * nuts

O

 * obstreperous
 * odd
 * oddball
 * off
 * orderly
 * organization
 * organized
 * originally
 * ornate
 * otherwise
 * out
 * outlandish
 * out of hand
 * out of order
 * out of place
 * out of sorts
 * outrageous
 * outré

P

 * panic
 * paranormal
 * pastiche
 * peculiar
 * pell-mell
 * performing
 * perhaps
 * perplexed
 * perturb
 * perverse
 * perversion
 * pervert
 * phoney
 * pickle
 * pie
 * plastered
 * plastic
 * play
 * playing
 * pliably
 * poorly
 * pop
 * possibly
 * potty
 * prancing
 * preparation
 * prepared
 * problem
 * processed
 * produce
 * pulverize
 * pummelled
 * puzzling

Q

 * queer
 * questionable
 * quirky
 * quivering

R

 * ragged
 * rambling
 * rampage
 * rampant
 * randomly
 * ravaged
 * raving
 * reaction
 * rearranged
 * reassembled
 * rebuilt
 * recast
 * recollected
 * recondition
 * reconfigured
 * reconstructed
 * reconstruction
 * recreated
 * recycled
 * redeveloped
 * redistributed
 * redraft
 * re-edit
 * refashioned
 * refined
 * refit
 * reformed
 * refurbished
 * regenerated
 * rehash
 * rejig
 * remade
 * remarkable
 * remodel
 * renovated
 * rent
 * reorder
 * repackage
 * repaired
 * replaced
 * repositioned
 * resettled
 * reshaped
 * reshuffle
 * resort
 * restless
 * restoration
 * revamp
 * revision
 * revolutionary
 * rework
 * rewritten
 * ridiculous
 * rig
 * riotously
 * rocky
 * rogue
 * rollicking
 * rotten
 * roughly
 * rubbish
 * ruin
 * ruination
 * rum
 * run riot
 * run wild
 * ruptured

S

 * sabotage
 * sadly
 * salad
 * scattered
 * scraggy
 * scramble
 * scrappy
 * screw
 * screwed
 * screwy
 * scruffy
 * sculpture
 * seedy
 * served
 * set
 * set out
 * shaken
 * shape
 * shaped
 * shattered
 * shifty
 * shot
 * shown off
 * shuffled
 * sick
 * silly
 * sketchy
 * slapdash
 * slaughtered
 * sloppy
 * smashed
 * solution
 * somehow
 * sort
 * sort of
 * soup
 * sozzled
 * spasmodic
 * spattered
 * special
 * spoilt
 * sprayed
 * spread
 * spurious
 * squiffy
 * staggering
 * stew
 * stormy
 * strangely
 * stray
 * structured
 * struggling
 * stupidly
 * styled
 * stylistic
 * supply
 * surprising
 * swilled
 * switched
 * synthetic

T

 * tailor
 * tainted
 * tangle
 * teetering
 * terrible
 * thrashing about
 * tidy
 * tight
 * tipsy
 * topsy-turvy
 * tormented
 * torn
 * torture
 * tortured
 * transformed
 * translated
 * translation
 * transmute
 * transposed
 * trashed
 * treated
 * treatment
 * trouble
 * tumultuous
 * turbulent
 * turn
 * turning
 * tweaked
 * twisted
 * type

U

 * ugly
 * uncontrolled
 * unconventional
 * unexpected
 * unfamiliar
 * unkempt
 * unnatural
 * unorthodox
 * unpredictable
 * unravelling
 * unruly
 * unscrambled
 * unsettled
 * unsound
 * unstable
 * unsteady
 * untidy
 * unusual
 * upset

V

 * vacillating
 * vaguely
 * vandalized
 * variant
 * variation
 * variety
 * various
 * vary
 * versatile
 * version
 * vigorously
 * violated
 * violently

W

 * wacky
 * wandering
 * warped
 * wasted
 * weaved
 * weird
 * whip up
 * whirl
 * whisk
 * wild
 * winding
 * work
 * worked
 * wrecked
 * wrestle
 * writhing
 * wrong
 * wrought

X
None known.

Y

 * yielding

Z

 * zany