Sounded surprised at new pages on the day (6)
I believe the answer is:
gasped
'sounded surprised at' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are past participle verbs, I don't understand how they can define each other.
'new pages on the day' is the wordplay.
'new' indicates anagramming the letters.
'on' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'the day' becomes 'd'.
'pages' is an anagram of 'gaspe'.
'gaspe'+'d'='GASPED'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for gasped that I've seen before include "Caught the breath" , "Took a sharp breath" , "Drew breath in sharply as in astonishment" , "Struggled for breath" , "Breathed noisily" .)