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Putting the squeeze on newspapers in Advent? (11)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

compressing

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'putting the squeeze' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.

'newspapers in advent?' is the wordplay.
'newspapers' becomes 'press' (the press is the newspaper industry).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'advent?' becomes 'coming' (synonyms).
'press' put within 'coming' is 'COMPRESSING'.

'on' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for compressing that I've seen before include "Squeezing" , "applying the squeeze" .)

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