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Planned for lawyer to attract attention of journalist (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

schemed

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'planned' is the definition.
(scheming is a kind of planning)

'lawyer to attract attention of journalist' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'journalist' could be 'ed' (short for editor) and 'ed' is located in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

'for' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for schemed that I've seen before include "Plotted and planned" , "Devised plans" , "Secretly plotted" , "designed" , "Cooked up" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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