The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word COPYCAT
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More clues leading to the result COPYCAT
- Highly imitative journalism, spiteful type
- Catch Young Conservative, coming from the Right, cheers echoing?
- Ape, Siamese perhaps, or parrot?
- One who imitates leaders of PETA yet chooses to wear fur?
- Policeman about to enter river, pulling up ape
- Make like an ape man
- One emulating Charlie in Flower of Scotland — Returning Officer first?
- Purr maybe as one with no original ideas?
- Whip accepting work with Young Conservatives is an imitator
- Modest when holding power, act differently as one who doesn’t
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The straight part
We know that "echoing?" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case echoing? = copycat.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does COPYCAT mean?
COPYCAT noun- One who imitates or plagiarizes others' work.
- A criminal who imitates the crimes of another; specifically, a criminal who commits the same crime, especially a highly-publicized one, that has just been or recently committed by someone else.
- To act as a copycat; to copy in a shameless or derivative way
- Imitative; unoriginal.