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Picture of assistant scratching head, worried (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ideate

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'picture' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with creating things as well as being verbs in their base form.
Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?

'assistant scratching head worried' is the wordplay.
'assistant' becomes 'aide' (aide is a kind of assistant).
'scratching head' means to remove the first letter (the first letter or head is scratched out).
'worried' becomes 'ate' (something worrying may eat someone up).
'aide' with its initial letter taken away is 'ide'.
'ide'+'ate'='IDEATE'

'of' acts as a link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for ideate that I've seen before include "Imagine (psychology), aid tee (anag.)" , "Form a picture of" , "Form in the imagination" , "Fancy" .)

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