The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word ASLANT
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result ASLANT
- Literary lion takes time on a slope
- Literary lion takes time on slope
- Fabled lion starts tipping sideways
- Leaning six-footer circumvents lowest of ceilings, note
- Time to pursue character from Lewis sloping off
- A second worker crosses line at an angle
- Literary lion: poet, ultimately using oblique style?
- Obliquely like the French, not without love
- Like worker crossing lake at an angle
- Lion taking time to be oblique
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What does ASLANT mean?
ASLANT adjective- Slanting
- At a slant
- Diagonally over or across