Made a chore a well-founded part of a dig? (14)
I believe the answer is:
archaeological
'part of a dig?' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are adjectives, I can't understand how they can define each other.
'made a chore a well-founded' is the wordplay.
'made' indicates an anagram.
'well founded' becomes 'logical' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'a'+'chore'+'a'='achorea'
'achorea' with letters rearranged gives 'archaeo'.
'archaeo'+'logical'='ARCHAEOLOGICAL'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for archaeological that I've seen before include "Studying history through digs" , "Studying ancient evidence" , "Relating to study of historic artefacts" .)