The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 plus 7 letter word LEADING ARTICLE
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result LEADING ARTICLE
- Cultivated country girl can edit edited editorial
- Journalism in the Guardian, but not in Times or Sun?
- Deleting racial abuse in newspaper comment
- In two senses, a feature of The Times?
- Dealing awkwardly with what may be the paper’s opinion piece
- Object after guiding editor’s work
- Playing first recital badly — that’s what editor writes
- Editor’s work, providing guidance on part of speech
Buddy explains!
The straight part
We know that "newspaper comment" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case newspaper comment = leading article.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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