The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word DATELINE
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More clues leading to the result DATELINE
- Possible new boyfriend has row? Get over it –it will be a different day
- Entailed adjusting what may be found at top of paper
- Lean diet designed to be feature of prominence in news reports
- Entailed crossing it to go back in time
- Curiously entailed text giving place and time
- Start of a news story entailed changes
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The straight part
We know that "it" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case it = dateline.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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What does DATELINE mean?
DATELINE noun- A line at the beginning of a document (such as a newspaper article) stating the place of origin and typically the date, and often written in capital letters.
- To attach a dateline to a particular document