Crushed Yank chopped ecstasy in Palladium (6)
I believe the answer is:
pulped
'crushed' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to change as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'yank chopped ecstasy in palladium' is the wordplay.
'yank' becomes 'pull' (I've seen this in another clue).
'chopped' means to remove the last letter (the final letter is chopped off).
'ecstasy' becomes 'E' (informal term for the drug).
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'palladium' becomes 'Pd' (Pd is the chemical symbol for palladium).
'pull' with its final letter taken away is 'pul'.
'e' going inside 'pd' is 'ped'.
'pul'+'ped'='PULPED'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for pulped that I've seen is " Reduced to a soft, soggy mass, paper say".)