Criticised Sunday dinner and journalist (7)
I believe the answer is:
roasted
'criticised' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are past participle verbs, I don't see how one could define the other.
'sunday dinner and journalist' is the wordplay.
'sunday dinner' becomes 'roast' (a roast dinner is often eaten on Sunday).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'journalist' becomes 'ed' (short for editor).
'roast'+'ed'='ROASTED'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for roasted that I've seen before include "How meat might be cooked" , "Cooked (like chestnuts)" , "Oven-cooked" , "Cooked (like a joint)" , "Cooked hot food" .)