The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 plus 6 letter word GUY FAWKES
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result GUY FAWKES
- Conspirator hanged: rope splits in two, we hear
- Fellow with effigies going around?
- Fellow with divisions in road, reportedly – he gets burnt
- Stay a week held in irons? That will do for conspirator
- Chap soundly digs his plot, he’s remembered today
- Conspiring chap few ask for change?
- Would-be regicide, chap goes two ways in speech
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