The Globe and Mail lead with an anagram today. Do you know enough about cryptic crosswords to see where they’re coming from?
The anagram indicator is ‘spasmodic’ and when ‘all rest’ is jumbled up we get a word which means ‘the stars’, and the answer: STELLAR.
stellar {adjective} of, relating to, involving, or resembling a star or stars
Check out some other examples of anagrams elsewhere in our 1 Across series:
1 Across No 13: Foreign minister’s transition periods
**1 Across No 8: Demonic choir alarms cast in ghost story **