The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word IMPLANT
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More clues leading to the result IMPLANT
- Embed motorway scheme within it
- Admission of espionage is fix
- One's easily influenced, one’s quitting graft?
- Fix motorway, returning heavy machinery
- Start of major scheme in Italy needs graft
- Setter’s to arrange time for false tooth?
- New element in trap producing admission by spy?
- Fix where your setter admits to espionage?
- One leading Bond character, spy showing graft
- Embed minute drawing of building in it
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The straight part
We know that "New element in trap/admission by spy" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case new element in trap/admission by spy = implant.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does IMPLANT mean?
IMPLANT noun- Anything surgically implanted in the body, such as a tissue graft or prosthesis, particularly breast implants.
- (travel) A representative of a travel company, working within the office of a large client and exclusively dealing with that client.
- To fix firmly or set securely or deeply.
- To insert (something) surgically into the body.
- Of an embryo, to become attached to and embedded in the womb.