Came round about six and criticised (8)
I believe the answer is:
cavilled
'criticised' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with communicating as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'came round about six' is the wordplay.
'came round' becomes 'called' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'about' indicates putting letters inside.
'six' becomes 'VI' (Roman numerals).
'called' enclosing 'vi' is 'CAVILLED'.
'and' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for cavilled that I've seen before include "complained" , "Raised trivial objections" .)