Crazier nationalist starting to instigate in state (7)
I believe the answer is:
nuttier
'crazier' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are comparative adjectives. Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'nationalist starting to instigate in state' is the wordplay.
'nationalist' becomes 'n' (abbreviation in politics).
'starting to' indicates taking the first letters.
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'state' becomes 'utter' (I've seen this before).
The initial letter of 'instigate' is 'i'.
'i' inserted inside 'utter' is 'uttier'.
'n'+'uttier'='NUTTIER'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for nuttier that I've seen before include "That's not so sensible" , "Increasingly unbalanced" .)