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Surrender accepted here, many papers reported (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

reims

'surrender accepted here' is the definition.
(Germany surrendered at Reims in World War 2)

'many papers reported' is the wordplay.
'many papers' becomes 'reams' (a ream is a large amount of paper).
'reported' shows a homophone (sound like).
'reams' sounds like 'REIMS'.

(Other definitions for reims that I've seen before include "Champagne capital (variant spelling)" , "City of northeast France" , "city in NE France" , "City, the traditional site for crowning French kings" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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