The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word EMBED
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More clues leading to the result EMBED
- Posh girl yours truly raised to get settled
- Billions invested in English medical implant
- War correspondent’s medal received by his boss?
- Fix smart girl and yours truly up
- Fix me up with piece of furniture
- Set off with no rescue boat and sink
- Plant journalist receiving honour
- Put to work for paper in combat zone, my boss receives gong
- Bass hiding in European sea plant
- Space at front of border for plant
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The straight part
We know that "Put to work for paper in combat zone" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case put to work for paper in combat zone = embed.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 EMBED mean?
EMBED noun- An embedded reporter or journalist, such as a war reporter assigned to and travelling with a military unit, or a political reporter assigned to follow and report on the campaign of a candidate.
- An element of an advertisement, etc. serving as a subliminal message.
- An item embedded in another document.
- To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.
- (by extension) To include in surrounding matter.
- To encapsulate within another document or data file.
- To define a one-to-one function from (one set) to another so that certain properties of the domain are preserved when considering the image as a subset of the codomain.