Searched for lewd art movement (7)
I believe the answer is:
trawled
'searched' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are past participle verbs, I can't understand how they can define each other.
'lewd art movement' is the wordplay.
'movement' is an anagram indicator (letters move around).
'lewd'+'art'='lewdart'
'lewdart' is an anagram of 'TRAWLED'.
'for' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for trawled that I've seen before include "Fished with large net dragged along bottom of sea" , "Used a net at sea" .)