The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word LIAISON
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More clues leading to the result LIAISON
- Rendered in oils, a romantic episode
- Affair’s trouble, after upsetting one child?
- Article is probing famous person’s affair
- Appears following trouble over affair
- Article is probing hero’s love affair
- Appears, after trouble over affair
- I worry about young man's sexual adventure
- I suffer over lad's affair
- I suffer upset over issue in affair
- Contact between groups with back trouble is working
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The straight part
We know that "romantic episode" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case romantic episode = liaison.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does LIAISON mean?
LIAISON noun- Communication between two parties or groups.
- Co-operation, working together.
- A relayer of information between two forces in an army or during war.
- A tryst, romantic meeting.
- An illicit sexual relationship or affair.
- The phonological fusion of two consecutive words and the manner in which this occurs, for example intrusion, consonant-vowel linking, etc. In the context of some languages, such as French, liaison can refer specifically to a normally silent final consonant, being pronounced when the next word begins with a vowel, and can often also include the intrusion of a "t" in certain fixed chunks of language such as the question form "pense-t-il".
- To liaise.