The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word RAVEL
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result RAVEL
- Music maker left after wild party
- Composer wasting time in tourism
- Composer, techno fan, finally changes direction
- Composer’s party line
- Barman left after party
- Entangle party line
- Frenchman who composed party line
- Composer left after party
- Wild party with many a man of music
- Composer in rage over ending in ‘Parsifal’
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What does RAVEL mean?
RAVEL noun- A snarl; a complication.
- A ravelled thread.
- To tangle; entangle; entwine confusedly, become snarled; thus to involve; perplex; confuse.
- To undo the intricacies of; to disentangle or clarify.
- To pull apart (especially cloth or a seam); unravel.
- To become entangled.
- To become untwisted or unwoven.
- In the APL programming language, to reshape (a variable) into a vector.