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"Ghost anagrams" from you and "ghost hidden words"from me - is this a ghost something?
Guardian prize today:
It's applied in hilarious fashion, so singly formed? (9,5)

If you need to look at the answer, it's on another thread.

Perhaps there should be a term for a clue that can only be solved "backwards", by arriving at the answer from available letters and figuring the clue out from there. If this was a "free-standing" clue (the kind Jolan offers) I doubt that one could solve it.
Or is there such a term already? "Inverse" maybe? There's a term for the kind of murder mystery in which the reader knows who did it (and how) before the detective does. I think it might indeed be "inverse mystery".

Inverse solutions, then?

That probably works.

or "Snoitulos"?

Love it, AB!

AB, you showoff!