The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word LEAFLETED
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result LEAFLETED
- Guide round Lima during festival handed out bills
- Targeted by marketing strategy, left shambolic extremists initially in command
- Distributed publicity material the French left during a fair day
- Given a flyer, teal fled in a panic carrying first of eggs
- Mistakenly felled a tree, oddly, having given out promotional material
- Distributed flyers from field and took flight across centre of Monterey
- Distributed information: rental property to be shielded by iron, then another metal
- Sent paperwork to give guidance about fleet at sea
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The straight part
We know that "Sent paperwork" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case sent paperwork = leafleted.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.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.
What does LEAFLETED mean?
LEAFLETED verb- To distribute leaflets to.
- To distribute leaflets.