The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word ELIDE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Times
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More clues leading to the result ELIDE
- Skip over some novel ideas
- Magistrate gets upset, being cut off
- Top parts exhausted ensemble leave out
- Leave out cover in employee’s case
- Tailless duck across lake is cut off
- Omit a vowel? I’d easily included it
- Suppress some novel ideas
- Merge together when English lied badly
- Suppress cover within borders of Eire
- Members of panel I’d eagerly cut short
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The straight part
We know that "Skip over" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case skip over = elide.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 ELIDE mean?
ELIDE verb- To leave out or omit (something).
- To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable.
- To conflate; to smear together; to blur the distinction between.