Conspicuous coverage of competition by papers? Just the opposite (7)
I believe the answer is:
evident
'conspicuous' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'coverage of competition by papers? just the opposite' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'papers?' could be 'id' (identification papers) and 'id' is present in the answer.
'competition' could be 'event' (event can mean a sporting competition) and 'event' is found in the remaining letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for evident that I've seen before include "Obvious, may be plainly seen" , "Obvious, quite apparent" , "Clearly apparent" , "Visible - plain" , "Clear to see" .)