Very surprised by the small deer that roamed wild (9)
I believe the answer is:
shattered
'roamed wild' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are past participle verbs, I cannot understand how one could define the other.
'very surprised by the small deer' is the wordplay.
'very' becomes 'shat' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'surprised' indicates anagramming the letters.
'by' says to put letters next to each other.
'the small' becomes 't' (the is pronounced as a 't' sound in some dialects; 'small' asks for a short form).
't' put next to 'deer' is 'tdeer'.
'tdeer' is an anagram of 'tered'.
'shat'+'tered'='SHATTERED'
'that' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for shattered that I've seen before include "He started off, being quite broken up" , "Tired; fragmented" , "Broken into many pieces" , "dashed to pieces" , "Broke into many pieces" .)