Organised French artist's retrospective? About time (6)
I believe the answer is:
staged
'organised french' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are past participle verbs, I don't understand how one could define the other.
'artist's retrospective? about time' is the wordplay.
'artist' becomes 'degas' (Edgar Degas, 1834-1917).
'retrospective?' is a reversal indicator (I've seen 'retrospective' mean this).
'about' indicates putting letters inside.
'time' becomes 't' (abbreviation).
'degas' reversed gives 'saged'.
'saged' placed around 't' is 'STAGED'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for staged that I've seen before include "Orchestrated" , "Organised (a performance)" , "Of a play, brought about" , "Presented a play" , "In tiers" .)