The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word SOW
I've seen this crossword clue in The Times
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More clues leading to the result SOW
- Farm animal that makes us scatter?
- Broadcast, like that on the radio?
- Oxygen used in southwestern plant
- Nothing between first couple of swine? Here's the female
- Thus wife finds pig
- Broadcast Beethoven’s Sixth in Cornwall?
- Female to prepare for future growth in Stafford’s river
- Animal which guzzles plant
- Spread litter produced by one?
- Very wide animal
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The straight part
We know that "Broadcast" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case broadcast = sow.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does SOW mean?
SOW noun- A female pig.
- A female bear, she-bear.
- A female guinea pig.
- A channel that conducts molten metal to molds.
- A mass of metal solidified in a mold.
- A contemptible, often fat woman.
- A sowbug.
- A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, etc.
- To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds).
- To spread abroad; to propagate.
- To scatter over; to besprinkle.