The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SCOOP
I've seen this crossword clue in Independent
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More clues leading to the result SCOOP
- Small company with work that’s exclusive
- Exclusive southern home for chickens!
- Small workers’ organisation in news story
- Novel‘s primary sources of satire concern one overseas pressman
- Novel written using small pen
- Exposé on small pen
- Bail out of special cage
- Novel serving of mashed potato?
- Cheese sample, e.g., wrapped by Tesco operative
- Pick up something exclusive
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The straight part
We know that "Novel" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case novel = scoop.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does SCOOP mean?
SCOOP noun- Any cup- or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
- The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
- The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
- A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
- An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
- The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
- A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
- A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
- A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.
- A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
- The peak of a cap.
- A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.
- To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
- To make hollow; to dig out.
- To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
- (often with "up") To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.
- To pick (someone) up