Coloured gardens in Kent opening in December (6)
I believe the answer is:
skewed
'coloured' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?
'gardens in kent opening in december' is the wordplay.
'gardens' becomes 'kew' (Kew Gardens in London).
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'kent' becomes 'se' (Kent is part of the South East of England).
'opening in' indicates taking the first letters.
The initial letter of 'december' is 'd'.
'kew' placed into 'se' is 'skewe'.
'skewe'+'d'='SKEWED'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for skewed that I've seen before include "Biased, distorted" , "'Slanted, oblique (6)'" , "Turned or twisted around" , "Slanted, distorted" , "with bias" .)