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Recklessly bid a lot for popular paper (7)

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I believe the answer is:

tabloid

'popular paper' is the definition.
(as opposed to broadsheets)

'recklessly bid a lot' is the wordplay.
'recklessly' is an anagram indicator (I've seen this in other clues).
'bid'+'a'+'lot'='bidalot'
'bidalot' anagrammed gives 'TABLOID'.

'for' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for tabloid that I've seen before include "Popular newspaper size" , "Newspaper with half-size pages" , "Cheap newspaper" , "Small-size newspaper" , "Smaller-sized newspaper" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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