Questioned about strange rites with a star sign? (10)
I believe the answer is:
asterisked
'a star sign?' is the definition.
The answer and definition are not the same part of speech. However, adjectives and past participle verbs sometimes mean the same thing.
'questioned about strange rites' is the wordplay.
'questioned' becomes 'asked' (I've seen this before).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'strange' indicates an anagram.
'rites' with letters rearranged gives 'teris'.
'asked' enclosing 'teris' is 'ASTERISKED'.
'with' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for asterisked that I've seen before include "marked for special attention" , "Marked symbolically" , "starred" .)