r/crosswords • u/Vivid_Temporary_1155 • 15h ago

COTD: Indian for example smashes canoe? (5)

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u/user_460 14h ago

The clue could be more general, it didn't need to be so Pacific.

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u/deeppotential123 TOTW Champion 15h ago

.OCEAN (Indian for example) = anagram (smashes) of CANOE.

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u/ssstevebbb 9h ago

This is a perfectly fine anagram but the tense is wrong. "[Definition] (is) anagrams [fodder]" doesn't make sense*. What you want is "[Definition] (is) anagrammed [fodder]", so "Indian, for example, smashed canoe". OCEAN is CANOE "smashed", not "smashes".

* There is an intransitive sense of the word anagram but it requires "to". "Ocean anagrams to canoe" but not "Ocean anagrams canoe".