Today’s crossword puzzle contains this clue: “Up-and-comers, and what the circled squares contain.” The solution is “rising stars,” but the circled letters are: l, e, g, i. r, b, e, n, e, d, a, g, e, and v. Those look like an anagram, but I cannot figure out what it is an anagram for. Perhaps the names of stars?
Pretty easy, to my eye…yes, it’s an anagram of star names.
Vega, Deneb, and Rigel. Not even a strong anagram, just reversed.
And they’re reversed because they’re rising: You need to read them from the bottom to the top. It’s not an anagram at all (or rather, only in the trivial sense that every word is its own anagram).
Thanks. Not an anagram but the stars are spelled out in reverse. :smack:
How did you figure that they’re going from bottom to top? In the OP, they’re going right-to-left.
shouldn’t it be:
riatla bened agev
The groups in the three words, solving the clues, are: “legir.” “bened,” and “agev” nicely spelling the names of the stars rigel, deneb and vega when read in reverse order of the letters. I don’t know what K364 is driving at with “riatia”? Is aitair a name of a star above deneb in the heavens?
(ETA: WARNING. Link contains spoiler, i.e. complete solve, of today’s LA Times crossword puzzle.) Here’s what the actual layout looks like, if anyone is interested. There are three vertical groupings of circles. From top-to-bottom, they are LEGIR, BENED, and AGEV. So each star is its own vertical grouping of circles, and each star is spelled from bottom-to-top (so, backwards and hence “rising.”)
It’s Altair. Vega, Deneb, and Altair form the Summer Triangle.
Thanks. I misread the post. That would have been a better solution than the one given, but crossword puzzle makers have their limitations. 
I was going to ask where you were from, since standard American style puzzles don’t do anagrams, but cryptics do. However they do have tricks like the answers rising, so the answer is in keeping with standard clues.
I’ve seen hidden words (such as in that puzzle) that contain
anagrams in the puzzles syndicated by the NY Times. Thus, my mindset was to look for anagrams.
Yeah, I’ve seen it too in that type of puzzle. Anagrams are not normally used in the English style for regular clues, but they do appear sometimes as part of a larger thematic puzzle, like the offbeat Thursday New York Times puzzles.