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Raid carried out by old medium (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

radio

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'medium' is the definition.
(I know that radio is a type of broadcasting)

'raid carried out by old' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
an anagram of 'raid' is 'radi' which is present in the answer.
'old' could be 'o' (abbreviation as in OT - Old Testament) and 'o' is located in the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for radio that I've seen before include "Contact" , "Speech receiver" , "Broadcast medium" , "Sound broadcasting" , "means of communication" .)

I've seen this clue in The Mirror and The Daily Express.
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