International organisation competed to recruit regressive artist? Nothing's changed (8)
I believe the answer is:
unvaried
'nothing's changed' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.
'international organisation competed to recruit regressive artist?' is the wordplay.
'international organisation' becomes 'UN' (United Nations).
'competed' becomes 'vied' ('vie' can be a synonym of 'compete').
'to recruit' means one lot of letters goes inside another (in the sense of bringing in).
'regressive' says the letters should be written backwards (to regress is to go backwards).
'artist?' becomes 'RA' (Royal Academician, member of Royal Academy of Arts).
'ra' reversed gives 'ar'.
'vied' placed around 'ar' is 'varied'.
'un'+'varied'='UNVARIED'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for unvaried that I've seen before include "Not involving change" , "Always the same" .)