The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word GRAYS
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What does GRAYS mean?
GRAYS noun- An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white.
- An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.
- An extraterrestrial humanoid with grayish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head.
- A penny with a tail on both sides, used for cheating.
- To become gray.
- To cause to become gray.
- To turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region)
- To give a soft effect to (a photograph) by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass plate.
- In the International System of Units, the derived unit of absorbed dose of radiation (radiation absorbed by a patient); one joule of energy absorbed per kilogram of the patient's mass. Symbol: Gy