The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word NURSES
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More clues leading to the result NURSES
- Takes care of some businesses running in recession
- Tends to be found in preserves
- Former railwaymen’s assets regularly omitted tenders
- Sharks in harbours
- Cares for sea creatures
- NHS employees harbour grudges, ultimately
- Hospital workers harbour grudges, ultimately
- Sources note unmoored rowboats seen escaping slipshod harbours
- Plastic surgeons go off with caretakers
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The straight part
We know that "Cares for/sea creatures" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case cares for/sea creatures = nurses.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does NURSES mean?
NURSES noun- A wet nurse.
- A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s young.
- A person trained to provide care for the sick.
- One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, or fosters.
- A shrub or tree that protects a young plant.
- A lieutenant or first officer who takes command when the captain is unfit for his place.
- A larva of certain trematodes, which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction.
- A nurse shark.
- To breastfeed: to feed (a baby) at the breast; to suckle.
- To breastfeed: to be fed at the breast.
- To care for (someone), especially in sickness; to tend to.
- To treat kindly and with extra care
- To manage with care and economy
- To drink slowly
- To foster, to nourish
- To hold closely to one's chest
- To strike (billiard balls) gently, so as to keep them in good position during a series of shots.