Finally placed excellent stories in these? (7)

I believe the answer is:

dailies

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'these?' is the definition.
The definition suggests an adverb but the answer is not.

'finally placed excellent stories' is the wordplay.
'finally' says to take the final letters.
'excellent' becomes 'ai' (resembles 'A1', old-fashioned term for excellent).
'stories' becomes 'lies' (to tell stories can mean to lie).
The last letter of 'placed' is 'd'.
'd'+'ai'+'lies'='DAILIES'

'in' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for dailies that I've seen before include "Rags" , "Newspapers" , "employed in cleaning?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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