Papers about case of turpitude judge went over again (8)
I believe the answer is:
iterated
'went over again' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are past participle verbs, I cannot see how they can define each other.
'papers about case of turpitude judge' is the wordplay.
'papers' becomes 'ID' (identity papers).
'about' indicates putting letters inside.
'case of' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters) (like emptying a case).
'judge' becomes 'rate' (rating is a kind of judging).
'turpitude' with its centre removed is 'te'.
'te'+'rate'='terate'
'id' enclosing 'terate' is 'ITERATED'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for iterated that I've seen before include "given repeat" , "Said or did again" , "Done over" , "Repeated or stated repeatedly" , "Kept repeating" .)