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Party clothes news boss creased (3-5)

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I believe the answer is:

dog-eared

'creased' is the definition.
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'party clothes news boss' is the wordplay.
'party' becomes 'do' (do is a kind of party).
'clothes' becomes 'gear' (I've seen this before).
'news boss' becomes 'ed' (I've seen this in other clues).
'do'+'gear'+'ed'='DOG-EARED'

(Other definitions for dog-eared that I've seen before include "Worn and shabby" , "Of book, with pages turned down at corners" , "Shabby with corners of pages turned down" , "Of book, having page corners turned down" , "Agree odd description of book with bent pages (3-5)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun and The Telegraph.
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