The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word SLENDER
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More clues leading to the result SLENDER
- Mailer accepting Pound is rather fine
- Spare rooms at last given to uncle
- South bank is narrow
- Small Building Society, say, is barely sufficient
- Thin girl's bottom shown in poster
- Slim profits ultimately got by loan provider
- Slight fall finally contained by exporter
- Society, one advancing money, very small
- Thin line into transmitter
- Modest southern bank, perhaps
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What does SLENDER mean?
SLENDER adjective- Thin; slim.
- Meagre; deficient
- (Gaelic languages) Palatalized.