The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word PALIMPSEST
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More clues leading to the result PALIMPSEST
- Simple changes in historic document with multiple texts
- Edited parchment most faded, wicked things in it
- Faceless spy in old document, rewritten
- Skipping the introduction, brief look into past rewritten manuscript
- Reused manuscript most bleached, devils inscribed
- Revolting pimp steals manuscript
- Reused manuscript, as father misspelt ‘misspelt’!
- Recycled old document including PPTs circulated with emails
- Chum with misstep involved in a sort of cover-up
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The straight part
We know that "Edited parchment" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case edited parchment = palimpsest.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does PALIMPSEST mean?
PALIMPSEST noun- A manuscript or document that has been erased or scraped clean, for reuse of the paper, parchment, vellum, or other medium on which it was written.
- Monumental brasses that have been reused by engraving of the blank back side.
- Circular features believed to be lunar craters that have been obliterated by later volcanic activity.
- Geological features thought to be related to features or effects below the surface.
- Memory that has been erased and re-written.
- (cultural studies) The partial erasure of or superimposition on an older society or culture by a newer one.
- Something bearing the traces of an earlier, erased form.
- To scrape clean, as in parchment, for reuse.
- On paper: to reuse, often by erasure or change of pen direction or color. Especially fueled by Earth Day.