The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word UNDER
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result UNDER
- Smaller than some European articles
- Subservient to a French communist revolutionary
- Torn, but not as to the bottom
- Influenced by articles in Le Monde and Die Welt
- Hidden from public scrutiny with summer over?
- One presumably telling too little about article illegally acquired
- Managed by mistake to ignore two leaders
- See 1ac.
- Completely submerged by European articles
- Not above using two foreign articles
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What does UNDER mean?
UNDER adjective- Being lower; being beneath something.
- Under anesthesia, especially general anesthesia; sedated.
- In a way lower or less than.
- In a way inferior to.
- In an unconscious state.
- In or at a lower level than.
- As a subject of; subordinate to.
- Less than.
- Below the surface of.
- In the face of; in response to (some attacking force).
- As, in the character of.