The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word IMPRINT
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More clues leading to the result IMPRINT
- The author's right to drown in beer, creating depression
- I am mostly supporting it having secured new publisher’s details
- Stamp showing this person's image
- Pair invested in one mint stamp
- One unblemished after involving publicity team to produce publisher’s mark
- Something in publication: one never used to include price
- Rascal looking back regularly in Tangier leaves mark
- I’m the type to stamp something out
- One married type’s distinctive influence
- One representative in the case of reemployment will leave a mark
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The straight part
We know that "stamp" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case stamp = imprint.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 IMPRINT mean?
IMPRINT noun- An impression; the mark left behind by printing something.
- The name and details of a publisher or printer, as printed in a book etc.; a publishing house.
- A distinctive marking, symbol or logo.
- To leave a print, impression, image, etc.
- To learn something indelibly at a particular stage of life, such as who one's parents are.
- To mark a gene as being from a particular parent so that only one of the two copies of the gene is expressed.