The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word FRAMED
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result FRAMED
- Set up, male supplied with pens
- Set up farm around central Sweden
- Wrongly accused, and prepared to hang
- Set up force in company of US agent
- Enclosed form and note
- Conceived and nourished eating butter?
- What he said was right about a million being wrongly convicted
- Notable Romeo arrested and facing trumped-up charges
- A picture could be so planned
- How a work of art may be set up
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What does FRAMED mean?
FRAMED verb- To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust.
- To construct by fitting or uniting together various parts; fabricate by union of constituent parts.
- To bring or put into form or order; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; contrive; plan; devise.
- Of a constructed object such as a building, to put together the structural elements.
- Of a picture such as a painting or photograph, to place inside a decorative border.
- To position visually within a fixed boundary.
- To construct in words so as to establish a context for understanding or interpretation.
- Conspire to incriminate falsely a presumably innocent person. See frameup.
- To wash ore with the aid of a frame.
- To move.
- To proceed; to go.
- To hit (the ball) with the frame of the racquet rather than the strings (normally a mishit).
- To strengthen; refresh; support.
- To execute; perform.
- To cause; to bring about; to produce.
- To profit; avail.
- To fit; accord.
- To succeed in doing or trying to do something; manage.