News read out and justified (8)
I believe the answer is:
answered
'justified' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with communicating as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'news read out' is the wordplay.
'out' is an anagram indicator (out can mean wrong or inaccurate).
'news'+'read'='newsread'
'newsread' anagrammed gives 'ANSWERED'.
'and' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for answered that I've seen before include "was sufficient" , "Replied or responded" , "Returned" , "succeeded" , "Responded to a question" .)