She begins to turn the tide and is charged with anti-government agitation (8)
I believe the answer is:
sedition
'agitation' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'she begins to turn the tide and is charged' is the wordplay.
'begins to' says to take the initial letters (I've seen 'beginning to' mean this).
'turn' is a reversal indicator.
'and' says to put letters next to each other.
'is charged' becomes 'ion' (I've seen this in other clues).
The first letter of 'she' is 's'.
'tide' written backwards gives 'edit'.
's'+'edit'+'ion'='SEDITION'
'with anti-government' acts as a link.
This may not be right. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for sedition that I've seen before include "Incitement to disorder" , "incitement to rebel" , "Revolting behaviour" , "Incitement to riot" , "Conduct inciting rebellion" .)