The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word CRATE
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result CRATE
- Vermin found in church box
- Top speed estimate for old vehicle
- Hundred have high opinion of old car
- Charlie worried about queen’s old car
- Judge on Charlie's case
- Missing last of explosive, produce banger
- Anglican keeps rodent in chest
- ‘Totem’ car? It could be this, MOT ploughed!
- Old vehicle in bottomless pit
- A case of a treacherous person entering the church
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What does CRATE mean?
CRATE noun- A large open box or basket, used especially to transport fragile goods.
- (mildly) A vehicle (car, aircraft, spacecraft, etc.) seen as unreliable.
- In the Rust programming language, a binary or library.
- To put into a crate.
- To keep in a crate.