Painted me in hat, going round Norway (6)
I believe the answer is:
limned
'painted' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with creating things as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'me in hat going round norway' is the wordplay.
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'hat' becomes 'lid' (lid can informally mean a hat).
'going round' is an insertion indicator (some letters go around others).
'norway' becomes 'n'.
'me' going into 'lid' is 'limed'.
'limed' placed around 'n' is 'LIMNED'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for limned that I've seen before include "Painted or drew, or described" , "Painted or portrayed" , "Portrayed in words or illuminated manuscript." , "Outlined, delineated" .)