Newspaper employee hopeful lover's collecting cot (9)

14D — Newspaper employee hopeful lover's collecting cot (9) — SUBEDITOR

• Definition
  Definition found: 'Newspaper employee'
• Indicator
  Indicator found: 'collecting'
• Operation
  'collecting' signals a container operation
• Fodder
  Fodder: 'hopeful lover's cot'
• Synonym
  Synonyms spotted: 'hopeful lover's' → SUITOR
• Synonym
  Synonyms spotted: 'cot' → BED
• Assembly
  SUITOR + BED = SU(BED)ITOR

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