The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word VARIED
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result VARIED
- Production of Verdi opera ultimately given new character
- Competed around a run that’s changed
- Very dull clothing earl changed
- Divers struggled to ford a river
- Redeployed invader not new or changed
- Arab staked outside is changed
- . Changed a diver! Changed!
- . For a change, drive around area that’s diverse
- Motley daredevils jettisoning sled, go nuts
- Support for whistleblowers that is initially distinctly mixed
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What does VARIED mean?
VARIED adjective- Diverse or miscellaneous
- Having been changed or modified
- Variegated
- To change with time or a similar parameter.
- To institute a change in, from a current state; to modify.
- Not to remain constant: to change with time or a similar parameter.
- (of the members of a group) To display differences.
- To be or act different from the usual.
- To make of different kinds; to make different from one another; to diversity; to variegate.
- To embellish; to change fancifully; to present under new aspects, as of form, key, measure, etc. See variation.
- To disagree; to be at variance or in dissension.