Composite Anagrams

A recent The Hindu Cryptic crossword of mine (THC #13543) featured this clue:

5d. Saga this distant relative of mine misused for cheap magazines? (10)

This is a "Composite Anagram" (CA, also called a "Compound Anagram") and is considered an "advanced" clue type (I say, piffle!). I think it's quite straightforward, once you've worked a few out.

You can find many explanations on the web, but I think my explanation is better (of course :-)). Just like a normal anagram clue, a CA has two parts, X and Y, and the clue's cryptic reading tells you that X is an anagram of Y (it can do so in a variety of ways, like "Angering X gives Y," or "X is Y after adjustments," or "X rearranges to Y," etc.—the point is that the anagrind can be anywhere as long as the cryptic reading is grammatical).

In a normal anagram clue, one of X/Y is the definition. In a CA, one of X/Y contains the definition as a sub-phrase. It will have other letters (to be included literally in the anagramming) before and/or after the definition part. It is common to indicate a CA with a "this [definition]," or "such a [definition]," etc. (but sometimes the setter may not do that and get some raised eyebrows, if the surface without "this"/"such"/etc. is just much better).

So, in my clue, X = "saga this distant relative of mine", with "distant relative of mine" being the definition, prefixed by "this." The solution is CHIMPANZEE. The anagrind is "misused for." And, Y = "cheap magazines."

(SAGA CHIMPANZEE)* = CHEAP MAGAZINES.