The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word REPLY
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result REPLY
- Specialised troops practise counterattack?
- Come back to put penny in bank
- Come back with very little money to deposit in bank
- Power invested in bank may be answer
- Answer is to have money in bank
- Depend on receiving Penny’s answer
- Come back and do steady work again?
- Bank keeping quiet when response is demanded
- Counter in bank holding page
- Sappers work steadily to get answer
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What does REPLY mean?
REPLY noun- A written or spoken response; part of a conversation.
- Something given in reply.
- A counterattack.
- The answer of a figure.
- A document written by a party specifically replying to a responsive declaration and in some cases an answer.
- To give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer.
- To act or gesture in response.
- To repeat something back; to echo.