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News about cycle of regularly fabricated material (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

nylon

'fabricated material' is the definition.
(synthetic material)

'news about cycle of regularly' is the wordplay.
'news' becomes 'nn' (n is common abbrev for new, news can be plural).
'about' is an insertion indicator.
'regularly' means one should take alternating letters (regularly take one letter, leave next etc.).
'cycle'+'of'='cycleof'
The alternating letters of 'cycleof' are 'ylo'.
'nn' enclosing 'ylo' is 'NYLON'.

(Other definitions for nylon that I've seen before include "A thermoplastic" , "Man-made material" , "Artificial material" , "Strong, resilient, synthetic fibre" , "Stocking; polymer" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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