The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 2 plus 5 letter word AT TIMES
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More clues leading to the result AT TIMES
- Employed by us, now and again?
- In our office occasionally
- Not always where top columnists work?
- Tiny character worried about school occasionally
- Being wild, it’s tame occasionally
- Meats cooked with it occasionally
- Now and then in American square?
- Employed by national paper? Now and then
- Occasionally employed by New York newspaper?
- Maiden hiding runs in dresses every so often
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The straight part
We know that "every so often" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case every so often = at times.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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