Sticky little growths twist leg out of shape (8)

'sticky little growths' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I can't tell whether this works.

'twist leg out of shape' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
an anagram of 'leg' is 'gle' which is located in the answer.
an anagram of 'twist' is 'twits' which is within the left over letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

Can you help me to learn more?