The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word OVERLAY
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More clues leading to the result OVERLAY
- Decorate article that’s boring too
- Milton’s span on narrative poem
- Indulge in too much sex, as printers might do?
- Was too prone to apply veneer?
- Cover sweetheart front to back with ‘erbage
- Carpet area wearing excessively
- Covering too much in article — the opposite
- Perhaps throw some balls, then rest
- Covering part of disloyal revolution up
- Covering gets adult in too
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The straight part
We know that "Covering" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case covering = overlay.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does OVERLAY mean?
OVERLAY noun- A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place.
- (betting) Odds which are set higher than expected or warranted. Favorable odds.
- A horse going off at higher odds than it appears to warrant, based on its past performances.
- A decal attached to a computer keyboard to relabel the keys.
- A block of program code that is loaded over something previously loaded, so as to replace the functionality.
- A pop-up covering an existing part of the display.
- A cravat.
- To lay, spread, or apply something over or across; cover.
- To overwhelm; to press excessively upon.
- To lie over (someone, especially a child) in order to smother it; to suffocate.
- To put an overlay on.
- To lie over or upon
- To suffocate by lying upon