The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word YELLOWS
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result YELLOWS
- Building slowly absorbing earth goes off-white
- Field swirls with blues and other colours
- Two pointers at the table given chicken beginning to slobber
- Cooked well, soy becomes sickly-looking
- Chicken given supplements ultimately displays signs of ageing
- Cries about nothing and wife colours
- Daffodil and primrose, say, almost entirely grown facing north at bottom of yard
- Non-whites trapped by shells from batteries?
- Colours the old permits without top rung
- Chicken 65 for starters gets a shade timeworn
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The straight part
We know that "displays signs of ageing" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case displays signs of ageing = yellows.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does YELLOWS mean?
YELLOWS noun- The colour of gold, butter, or a lemon; the colour obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting blue from white light.
- The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, the illumination of which indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so.
- One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.
- (pocket billiards) One of two groups of object balls, or a ball from that group, as used in the principally British version of pool that makes use of unnumbered balls (the (yellow(s) and red(s)); contrast stripes and solids in the originally American version with numbered balls).
- A yellow card.
- Any of various pierid butterflies of the subfamily Coliadinae, especially the yellow coloured species. Compare sulphur.
- To become yellow or more yellow.
- To make (something) yellow or more yellow.