Depression's cause rearranging tie or meet? (9)
I believe the answer is:
meteorite
'depression's cause' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't see how they can define each other.
'rearranging tie or meet?' is the wordplay.
'rearranging' indicates anagramming the letters (I've seen 'rearranged' mean this).
'tie'+'or'+'meet'='tieormeet'
'tieormeet' with letters rearranged gives 'METEORITE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for meteorite that I've seen before include "Rock that falls to earth" , "fallen stone" , "Matter in the solar system that reaches earth" , "Something falling from the sky" , "Piece of rock fallen from outer space" .)