The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word MISSPELL
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result MISSPELL
- What poor witch may do to display bad character?
- Neglect odd parts of poem, lines showing blunder with words
- Girl’s lines added to exercise put down wrongly
- Teacher having gym with students is badly put down
- Blunder as writer is taken in by male charm
- Blunder as letter writer — is taken in by male charm
- Put down, wrongly, I’m coming back with a soupçon of silky charm
- Cause miscomunnication in simple S&L arrangement?
- Get incantation wrong and suffer from fat fingers?
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The straight part
We know that "badly put down" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case badly put down = misspell.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 MISSPELL mean?
MISSPELL verb- To spell incorrectly.