American news spun Republican departing with additional comments (9)
I believe the answer is:
annotated
'spun republican departing with additional comments' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with creating things as well as being past participle verbs.
Perhaps they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'american news' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'american' could be 'a' (common abbreviation - e.g. in organisation names) and 'a' is present in the answer.
'news' could be 'nn' (an abbreviation for new written twice) and 'nn' is found within the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for annotated that I've seen before include "written all over?" , "explained" , "Added comments to" .)