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Mud around gallery took new form (7)

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I believe the answer is:

mutated

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'took new form' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both related to change as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?

'mud around gallery' is the wordplay.
'around' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'gallery' becomes 'tate' (Tate Modern, Tate Britain etc).
'mud' placed around 'tate' is 'MUTATED'.

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(Other definitions for mutated that I've seen before include "Changed form" , "made changes" , "Changed (biologically)" , "Made different" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun.
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