The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word PROFILE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result PROFILE
- Portrait appropriate to put up in mansion
- Sideways view albeit contrary, maintained by peasant
- Extent of public notice for data collection
- Study condition on the rise caught by man in the street
- Outline argument in favour of data collection
- Academic priest set up outline
- Column on paid performer’s sketch
- Papers supporting wizard’s image
- View of professional put on record
- Short biographical sketch favouring female going to isolated area in France
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The straight part
We know that "sketch" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case sketch = profile.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 PROFILE mean?
PROFILE noun- The outermost shape, view, or edge of an object.
- The shape, view, or shadow of a person's head from the side; a side view.
- A summary or collection of information, especially about a person
- A specific space or field in which users can provide various types of personal information in software or Internet systems.
- Reputation.
- The amount by which something protrudes.
- Prominence; noticeability.
- A smoothed (e.g., troweled or brushed) vertical surface of an excavation showing evidence of at least one feature or diagnostic specimen; the graphic recording of such as by sketching, photographing, etc.
- Character; totality of related characteristics; signature; status (especially in scientific, technical, or military uses).
- A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of mouldings etc.
- A drawing exhibiting a vertical section of the ground along a surveyed line, or graded work, as of a railway, showing elevations, depressions, grades, etc.
- An exemption from certain types of duties due to injury or disability.
- To create a summary or collection of information about (a person, etc.).
- To act based on such a summary, especially one that is a stereotype; to engage in profiling.
- To draw in profile or outline.
- To give a definite form by chiselling, milling, etc.
- To measure the performance of various parts of (a program) so as to locate bottlenecks.