The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word ESCAPE
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result ESCAPE
- Copy key — primarily for bolt
- Get away from ultimately remote southern headland
- Run away from mischievous prank, avoiding publicity
- Get away to read Howards End in peace, perhaps
- Flight case damaged wings of plane
- Initially easy to walk up over small flight
- Key flight
- Avoid finishing sentence?
- Get away from it all on England’s southern headland
- Get away from edge of fire grate, right away
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The straight part
We know that "Flight" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case flight = escape.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does ESCAPE mean?
ESCAPE noun- The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
- Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
- Something that has escaped; an escapee.
- A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life.
- Escape key
- The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
- A successful shot from a snooker position.
- A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.
- That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake, oversight, or transgression.
- A sally.
- An apophyge.
- To get free; to free oneself.
- To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
- To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
- To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
- To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the same context, often by prefixing with another character.
- To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.