Showed anger in society, like brothers in the hood? (7)
I believe the answer is:
scowled
'showed anger' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are past participle verbs, I can't understand how one could define the other.
'in society like brothers in the hood?' is the wordplay.
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'society' becomes 's' (common abbreviation in names of organisations).
'like brothers in' becomes 'ed' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'the hood?' becomes 'cowl' (synonyms).
's'+'ed'='sed'
'sed' placed around 'cowl' is 'SCOWLED'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for scowled that I've seen before include "Pulled a face" , "Looked gloomy" .)