The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word SHEPHERD
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result SHEPHERD
- Tender and soft on that woman in shelter
- Potential Leicester keeper seen with crook?
- Perfect day disrupted by measure of acidity in conduct
- Say Corydon‘s fine to embrace boozer and start to drink
- Person tending to be a crooked employer
- Quietly the female sits in building as farm-worker
- Tender / meat’s produced by his livestock?
- Beastly carer, female, paid to restrain that woman
- Guide quietly separating female and male on road
- Stock controller?
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The straight part
We know that "Person tending/a crooked employer" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case person tending/a crooked employer = shepherd.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 SHEPHERD mean?
SHEPHERD noun- A person who tends sheep, especially a grazing flock.
- Someone who watches over, looks after, or guides somebody.
- The pastor of a church; one who guides others in religion.
- A swain; a rustic male lover.
- To watch over; to guide
- For a player to obstruct an opponent from getting to the ball, either when a teammate has it or is going for it, or if the ball is about to bounce through the goal or out of bounds.