The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word PIQUET
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result PIQUET
- Card-game in Paris that’s eclipsed by mine
- Card game to stimulate tense F1 driver
- Huff leading to end of first game
- Resentment before end of important game
- Card game – what they have in Paris in den
- Card game is tense after sour grapes
- Game‘s tense after animosity
- Anger ahead of time for card game
- Feeling of resentment beginning to tell in game
- Heard to choose alien for unusual punishment
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What does PIQUET mean?
PIQUET noun- A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside.