Crossword Genius

React badly on Philistine's becoming artistic (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

creative

'artistic' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'react badly on philistine's' is the wordplay.
'badly' indicates an anagram.
'on' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'philistine's' becomes 'I've' (where the crossword setter is 'Philistine').
'react' with letters rearranged gives 'creat'.
'creat'+'ive'='CREATIVE'

'becoming' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for creative that I've seen before include "Full of ideas" , "Having the power to be original" , "Innovative in reactive way" , "Inventive, artistic" , "Reactive in artistic manner" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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