The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word MINUTES
I've seen this crossword clue in The Sunday Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result MINUTES
- Notes very small rhinoceros’s bottom
- Makes note of tick on rhinoceros’s backside
- Wee small hours? No!
- Notes explosives around exterior of U-boat
- Record times
- I’m turning up original tunes for record
- Notes the time
- Small point in transcript
- Note held in sign to withdraw account of meeting
- What’s near top of agenda for at least 120 seconds?
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The straight part
We know that "record" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case record = minutes.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does MINUTES mean?
MINUTES noun- A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).
- A short but unspecified time period.
- A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
- (chiefly in the plural, minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
- A unit of purchase on a telephone or other network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network.
- A point in time; a moment.
- A nautical or a geographic mile.
- An old coin, a half farthing.
- A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.
- A fixed part of a module.
- A while or a long unspecified period of time
- Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.
- To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
- The official notes kept during a meeting.