The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word SUSPECTS
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result SUSPECTS
- States parking that’s acceptable to schools will raise doubts
- Questions factions grabbing American power
- Suits one giving way to guesswork and doubts
- Around America, parking in schools raises doubts
- Has misgivings about defective space suits missing cores
- Calls into question putting back government industry into divisions
- Dodgy people caught in elaborate set-up aboard ship
- Imagines schools must keep distinguishing feature
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What does SUSPECTS mean?
SUSPECTS noun- A person who is suspected of something, in particular of committing a crime.
- To imagine or suppose (something) to be true, or to exist, without proof.
- To distrust or have doubts about (something or someone).
- To believe (someone) to be guilty.
- To have suspicion.
- To look up to; to respect.