Were letters about corruption put in other words? (7)
I believe the answer is:
rewrote
'were letters about corruption put in other words?' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.
'were letters about corruption' is the wordplay.
'letters' indicates an anagram.
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'corruption' becomes 'rot' (I've seen this before).
'were' is an anagram of 'rewe'.
'rewe' placed around 'rot' is 'REWROTE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for rewrote that I've seen before include "Penned again" , "What the subeditor did" , "Changed the wording of" .)