The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word CODES
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result CODES
- Heartless dame resides in Greek island and works as a programmer
- Firm fails, ditching current sets of ethics
- Fish regularly sense ciphers
- Puts in Morse lines during Lewis?
- Programmes
- Lots of laws passed – occasionally some rejected
- rules
- Lewis initially penning poem for morals
- Encrypts software laws
- Chaucer’s first poems, which need deciphering
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The straight part
We know that "Programmes/Programmes" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case programmes/programmes = codes.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 CODES mean?
CODES noun- A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents.
- A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.
- Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.
- A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
- A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
- A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
- Instructions for a computer, written in a programming language; the input of a translator, an interpreter or a browser, namely: source code, machine code, bytecode.
- (scientific programming) A program.
- A particular lect or language variety.
- An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.
- To write software programs.
- To add codes to a dataset.
- To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
- To encode.
- To encode a protein.
- To call a hospital emergency code.
- Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest.