The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word NIBS
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result NIBS
- Tips for writer from Northern Ireland, medical graduate
- An air base regularly getting bills
- Wrong in turn to claim black writers
- Bills writers run up in bars on vacation
- Wrong to be upset about British writers
- Writers wrong to hold book back
- His mock title for writers
- Important chap, preceded by his 24’s materials
- National disease points to writer
- His can be self important but useful for writing
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The straight part
We know that "Bills/writers" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case bills/writers = nibs.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 NIBS mean?
NIBS noun- The tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface, transferring ink to paper.
- The bill or beak of a bird; the neb.
- Bits of trapped dust or other foreign material that form imperfections in painted or varnished surfaces.
- A piece of a roasted, hulled cocoa bean.
- A small and pointed thing or part; a point; a prong.
- One of the handles projecting from a scythe snath.
- The shaft of a wagon.
- (after possessive pronoun) An important or self-important person.
- (19th century, after possessive pronoun) Self.
- A jack turned up by the dealer. (see also nob)