Evaluated drug said to suppress the onsets of intense migraines (9)
I believe the answer is:
estimated
'evaluated' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to thinking as well as being past participle verbs.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'drug said to suppress the onsets of intense migraines' is the wordplay.
'drug' becomes 'e' (E is another name for ecstasy).
'said' becomes 'stated' ('state' can be a synonym of 'say').
'to suppress' indicates putting letters inside (inserted letters are suppressed or crushed).
'the onsets of' says to take the initial letters (I've seen 'onset of' mean this).
The initial letters of 'intense migraines' is 'im'.
'stated' enclosing 'im' is 'stimated'.
'e'+'stimated'='ESTIMATED'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for estimated that I've seen before include "Judged roughly" , "Calculated roughly" , "Guessed" , "Rough" , "Calculated approximately" .)