The present (5)
I believe the answer is:
today
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">the present</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(today is a kind of present)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is the entire clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for today that I've seen before include "At the present time, in general" , "Nowadays" , "one of our papers, once" , "Presently" , "Current period of 24 hours" .)