The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word IMPLIED
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More clues leading to the result IMPLIED
- Suggested paper fabricated report about backbencher?
- One’s worked diligently, it’s inferred? The opposite!
- Suggested mischievous person was deceitful
- Suggested mischievous child told fibs
- One politician didn’t tell the truth
- Understood mischievous child was untruthful
- I’m given to being given
- Insinuated naughty child made up stories
- Young miscreant was dishonest? It’s not obvious
- I fibbed about politician, it’s insinuated
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The straight part
We know that "it is suggested./ it is suggested" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case it is suggested./ it is suggested = implied.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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What does IMPLIED mean?
IMPLIED adjective- Suggested without being stated directly; implicated or hinted at.
- (of a proposition) to have as a necessary consequence
- (of a person) to suggest by logical inference
- (of a person or proposition) to hint; to insinuate; to suggest tacitly and avoid a direct statement
- To enfold, entangle.