Admitted illegally taking ecstasy - sought peace of mind (9)
I believe the answer is:
meditated
'sought peace of mind' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are past participle verbs, I cannot understand how they can define each other.
'admitted illegally taking ecstasy' is the wordplay.
'illegally' is an anagram indicator (not in the proper order).
'taking' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'ecstasy' becomes 'E' (informal term for the drug).
'admitted' anagrammed gives 'meditatd'.
'meditatd' going around 'e' is 'MEDITATED'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for meditated that I've seen before include "Engaged in religious contemplation" , "Engaged in spiritual contemplation" , "thought" , "pondered" .)