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Allowed one good journalist to follow soldiers (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

agreed

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'allowed' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with communicating as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?

'one good journalist to follow soldiers' is the wordplay.
'one' becomes 'a'.
'good' becomes 'g' (abbreviation).
'journalist' becomes 'ed' (short for editor).
'to follow' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'soldiers' becomes 're' (Royal Engineers).
'ed' after 're' is 'reed'.
'a'+'g'+'reed'='AGREED'

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for agreed that I've seen before include "In harmony" , "Settled by common consent" , "Assented, acquiesced" , "Geared (anag.)" , "acceptable" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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