The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word SECTION
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result SECTION
- Scone: it needs cooking a bit
- Edit notices a bit
- Nothing in new design of nicest part
- Appearance of hole in wounded insect's wing
- Almost back, holding it up as part of the Guardian, say
- Department notices in need of correction
- City raised it with regard to joining second division
- Notices damaged part
- Notices rotten branch
- Part of Essex city I found oddly deserted
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The straight part
We know that "part of the Guardian, say" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case part of the guardian, say = section.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does SECTION mean?
SECTION noun- A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
- A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
- A part of a document.
- An act or instance of cutting.
- A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
- An incision or the act of making an incision.
- A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
- A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
- An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
- A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
- A right inverse.
- A piece of residential land; a plot.
- A one-mile square area of land, defined by a government survey.
- Any of the squares, each containing 640 acres, into which the public lands of the United States were divided.
- The symbol ยง, denoting a section of a document.
- A sequence of rock layers.
- To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
- To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.
- To commit (a person, to a hospital, with or without their consent), as for mental health reasons. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.
- Medical To perform a cesarean section on (someone).