The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word BRITTEN
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result BRITTEN
- Hearing of our nation, this English composer
- Composer the nation listened to
- Put in words, but black, not white initially
- Man who scored for his country, say?
- Wader having moved right back for 1D
- He scored for his country, did you say?
- Benjamin, a familiar national figure?
- Composer possibly attacked by midges around river
- Composer put pen to paper, displaying book for women
- Composer chewed over the end of “Tannhäuser”
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