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Given access having confessed (8)

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admitted

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'confessed' is the definition.
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(Other definitions for admitted that I've seen before include "Owned up or let in" , "Allowed in or accepted as true" , "Acknowledged to be true" , "Conceded; let in" , "Allowed to enter or owned up" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun.
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