The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word PREY
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result PREY
- Snoop around English quarry
- Sparsely separates these characters — victims
- Food for raptors sparsely, evenly presented
- Enquire about killer’s penultimate victim
- Avian predator ignoring unusually large target
- Ferret circling European animal that’s hunted
- Bird fails to hold on to extra large victim
- Dig around far end of slate quarry
- A-X victim
- Mark to say grace aloud
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What does PREY mean?
PREY noun- Anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in war
- That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured; hence, a person given up as a victim.
- A living thing that is eaten by another living thing.
- The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.
- The victim of a disease.
- To act as a predator.