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").

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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A[]

abandoned
abnormal
about
absurd
abused
abysmal
accident
acrobatics
action
active
adapted
addled
adjusted
adrift
affected
afresh
after a fashion
agile
agitated
all over the place
all shook up
altered
alternative
amazing
amend
amendment
amiss
amok
anarchic
anew
animated
anomalous
another
anyhow
around
arrange
arrangement
artful
askew
assembled
assorted
astray
at odds
at random
atrocious
at sea
at sixes and sevens
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
brewed
broach
broadcast
broken
broth
buckled
buffalo
building
built
bungled
burst
bust
bustling
busy
butcher
by arrangement
by mistake
Byzantine

C[]

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

D[]

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

E[]

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

F[]

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

G[]

gaffe
gambol
garbled
generating
gets
giddily
gingerly
giving
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[]

ill-bred
ill-disposed
ill-formed
ill-treated
imperfect
improper
inaccurate
in a ferment
in a jumble
in a mess
in a whirl
incorrect
in disarray
in disguise
inebriated
inept
in error
ingredients
injured
in motion
inordinate
in pieces
in ruins
insanely
interfered with
intoxicated
intricate
invention
involved
irregular
irritated
itinerant

J[]

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

K[]

kind of
kinky
knead
knocked about
knotted

L[]

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

M[]

mad
made-up
madness
make
make up
malformed
malfunction
malleably
maltreated
managed
mangle
manic
manipulate
manoeuvre
manufacturing
mar
mash
mashed
massage
maul
maybe
mayhem
meandering
medley
melange
mêlée
melted
mental
mephistophelian
mess
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
mosh
mount
move
movement
moving
muddled
muff
mushy
mutation
mutilation
mutinous
mysterious

N[]

nastily
naughty
neatened
new
not in order
not properly
not right
novel
nuts
nutty

O[]

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

P[]

panic
pants
paranormal
pastiche
peculiar
pell-mell
performing
perhaps
perplexed
perturb
perverse
perversion
pervert
phoney
pickle
pie
pitching
plastered
plastic
play
playing
pliably
poorly
pop
possibly
potential
potty
prancing
preparation
prepared
problem
problematic
processed
produce
pseudo
pulverize
pummelled
put out
put right
put straight
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
rectified
recycled
redeveloped
redistributed
redraft
re-edit
reeling
refashioned
refined
refit
reformed
refurbished
regenerated
regulated
rehash
rejig
remade
remarkable
remodel
renovated
rent
reorder
repackage
repaired
replaced
repositioned
resettled
reshaped
reshuffle
resort
restless
restoration
revamp
reviewed
revision
revolting
revolutionary
rework
rewritten
ridiculous
rig
riotously
rocky
rogue
rollicking
rotten
roughly
round
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
shambles
shape
shaped
shattered
shifty
shot
shown off
shuffled
sick
silly
sketchy
slapdash
slaughtered
sloppy
smashed
snarled
solution
somehow
sort
sort of
soup
sozzled
spasmodic
spattered
special
spilled
spinning
spoilt
sprayed
spread
spun
spurious
squiffy
staged
staggering
stew
stormy
strangely
stray
structured
struggling
stupidly
styled
stylistic
substituted
supply
surprising
suspect
swilled
swimming
swirling
switched
synthetic

T[]

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

U[]

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

V[]

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

W[]

wacky
wandering
warped
wasted
wayward
weaved
weird
whip up
whirl
whisk
wild
winding
work
worked
worried
wound
woven
wrecked
wrestle
writhing
wrong
wrought

X[]

None known.

Y[]

yielding

Z[]

zany