Criminal exposed by Parisian article on wife (6)

I believe the answer is:

outlaw

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'criminal' is the definition.
(I know that criminal can be written as outlaw)

'exposed by parisian article on wife' is the wordplay.
'exposed' becomes 'out' (out on display).
'by parisian article' becomes 'la' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'on' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'wife' becomes 'w' (abbreviation).
'out'+'la'+'w'='OUTLAW'

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(Other definitions for outlaw that I've seen before include "Wanted criminal" , "Josey Wales was one" , "bar" , "Ban; fugitive" , "Nonconformist" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.

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