The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word GREEN
I've seen this crossword clue in The Times
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More clues leading to the result GREEN
- Politician needing info about Religious Education
- Fresh information about military engineers
- Inexperienced member of political party
- About to stop low-down tree-hugger?
- Sportingly where one would be putting colour
- Fresh information about sappers
- Envious member of political party
- Inexperienced in a good way, that is belonging to an upper-class set?
- Raw part of course
- Envy author over some trendy novel
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The straight part
We know that "Politician" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case politician = green.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does GREEN mean?
GREEN adjective- Having green as its color.
- (of people) Sickly, unwell.
- Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
- (of people) Inexperienced.
- (of people) Naive or unaware of obvious facts.
- (of people) Overcome with envy.
- Environmentally friendly.
- Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture.
- Of bacon or similar smallgoods: unprocessed, raw, unsmoked; not smoked or spiced.
- Not fully roasted; half raw.
- Of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried: containing moisture and therefore relatively more flexible or springy.
- High or too high in acidity.
- Full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent.
- Having a sexual connotation.
- Having a color charge of green.
- Being or relating to the green currencies of the European Union.
- The colour of growing foliage, as well as other plant cells containing chlorophyll; the colour between yellow and blue in the visible spectrum; one of the primary additive colour for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and blue from white light using cyan and yellow filters.
- (sometimes capitalised) A member of a green party; an environmentalist.
- A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.
- (bowls) The surface upon which bowls is played.
- One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points.
- A public patch of land in the middle of a settlement.
- A grassy plain; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage.
- (chiefly in plural) Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths.
- Any substance or pigment of a green colour.
- Marijuana.
- Money.
- One of the three color charges for quarks.
- To make (something) green, to turn (something) green.
- To become or grow green in colour.
- To add greenspaces to (a town, etc.).
- To become environmentally aware.
- To make (something) environmentally friendly.