Cryptic crossword clue
Brown finished, reportedly 3

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word DUN

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The straight part

We know that "Brown" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case brown = dun.

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What does DUN mean?

1. A brownish grey colour.

1. Of a brownish grey colour.

1. A collector of debts.
2. An urgent request or demand of payment.

1. To ask or beset a debtor for payment.
2. To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.

1. A newly hatched, immature mayfly; a mayfly subimago.
2. A fly made to resemble the mayfly subimago.

1. An ancient or medieval fortification; especially a hill-fort in Scotland or Ireland.
2. A structure in the Orkney or Shetland islands or in Scotland consisting of a roundhouse surrounded by a circular wall; a broch.

1. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker.
2. To perform; to execute.
3. To cause, make (someone) (do something).
4. To suffice.
5. To be reasonable or acceptable.
6. (ditransitive) To have (as an effect).
7. To fare, perform (well or poorly).
8. (chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
9. To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
10. To cook.
11. To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
12. To treat in a certain way.
13. To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc.
14. To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
15. To spend (time) in jail. (See also do time)
16. To impersonate or depict.
17. (with 'a' and the name of a person, place, event, etc.) To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned.
18. To kill.
19. To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
20. To punish for a misdemeanor.
21. To have sex with. (See also do it)
22. To cheat or swindle.
23. To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
24. To finish.
25. To work as a domestic servant (with for).
26. (auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
27. To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
28. (ditransitive) To make or provide.
29. To injure (one's own body part).
30. To take drugs.
31. (in the form be doing [somewhere]) To exist with a purpose or for a reason.

1. To cure, as codfish, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with saltgrass or a similar substance.

1. A mound or small hill.

1. Imitating suspenseful music.

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