The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word UNWIND
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result UNWIND
- Relax large body and fart
- Relax with Macron’s one victory finally reversed
- For Les Bleus, a victory followed by day to chill out
- Chill a large body with scent carrier
- Relax in day following success at General Assembly?
- Let yourself go, Champagne’s a suggestion
- Victory in Germany…and relax!
- Nuns stripped on ramble to relax
- In Paris, a breeze produces chill
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The straight part
We know that "to chill out" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case to chill out = unwind.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 UNWIND mean?
UNWIND noun- Any mechanism or operation that unwinds something.
- To separate (something that is wound up)
- To disentangle
- To relax; to chill out; to rest and relieve of stress
- To be or become unwound; to be capable of being unwound or untwisted.
- To undo something.
- To analyse (a call stack) so as to generate a stack trace etc.