The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word CRAZE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result CRAZE
- Gangster twins reportedly supplying crack all over?
- Caught London gangsters making crack
- It’s a fashion to speak of criminals
- Make cracks on passing fashion
- Charlie fell for the latest thing
- Gangsters once discussed crack
- Criminals’ pronounced obsession
- Frantic behaviour from notorious brothers cited
- Trend in supercomputers, say
- Obsession of bird turning North to sleep soundly
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What does CRAZE mean?
CRAZE noun- Craziness; insanity.
- A strong habitual desire or fancy.
- A temporary passion or infatuation, as for some new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; a fad
- A crack in the glaze or enamel caused by exposure of the pottery to great or irregular heat.
- To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.
- To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
- To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
- To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See crase.
- To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.