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Realise English National Curriculum has changed (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

encash

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'realise' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'english national curriculum has changed' is the wordplay.
'english national curriculum' becomes 'enc' (this might be a standard abbreviation of which I'm unaware).
'changed' indicates anagramming the letters.
'has' anagrammed gives 'ash'.
'enc'+'ash'='ENCASH'

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(Other definitions for encash that I've seen before include "one can do this at the bank" , "Turn (cheque) to money" , "Change to different sort of dough" , "Realise" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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