The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word SIMPLE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result SIMPLE
- Like Simon or Herb
- Foolish to misinterpret splendid mime
- Uncomplicated foreign article on PM is backed
- Politician engaged in awful lies is easily understood
- Unpretentious headdress with a hint of severity for wife
- Help mistress, partly upset and guileless
- Miles turning round intro for Paul Simon’s predecessor?
- Naive politician caught in a web of lies
- Hollow son kicking daughter out
- A piece of cake in mess -- I'm pleased!
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What does SIMPLE mean?
SIMPLE noun- A herbal preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
- (by extension) A physician.
- A simple or atomic proposition.
- Something not mixed or compounded.
- A drawloom.
- Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
- A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.
- To gather simples, i.e. medicinal herbs.
- Uncomplicated; taken by itself, with nothing added.
- Without ornamentation; plain.
- Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
- Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
- Trivial; insignificant.
- Feeble-minded; foolish.
- (heading) Structurally uncomplicated.
- Mere; not other than; being only.