### Clue: Daily forced to ditch front cover in farcical event (7)
### Answer: CHARADE 
 ### Explanation: Definition: farcical event
 CHAR(short for "charwoman/a daily/a woman who is employed to clean in a house of office) + "made"(forced to/compelled to) **minus ****its 1st letter**(to ditch front cover).
Defn: …/a pretence.