The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word REPAPER
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result REPAPER
- Power in the grim portent to freshen a room up perhaps
- Endow with another look up or down?
- Prepare supply and change decor
- Decorate again, one way or the other
- Prepare eccentric cover again for example of 16
- Cover the walls again — from top to bottom or the other way around
- Parking in farm machine, put something new on the wall
- Do a decorating job, either way you look at it?
- Penny’s in Harvester, paste rolls again?
- Cover over, in a way ... in two ways
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The straight part
We know that "Decorate again" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case decorate again = repaper.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.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.
What does REPAPER mean?
REPAPER verb- To apply new wallpaper to, either by first stripping the old wallpaper off, or by papering over the top.