Informs (5)

I believe the answer is:

tells

'informs' is the definition.
(telling is a kind of informing)

This is the entire clue.

(Other definitions for tells that I've seen before include "Informs, recounts" , "Narrates" , "Counts" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard and The Mirror.

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