The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word DOUBTLESS
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result DOUBTLESS
- Oldest bus around, certainly …
- Oldest bus in need of repair, of course
- Probably hypocritical to stock earliest of tomes on saints
- Certainly have fewer qualms
- Geminicarrying Taurus’s head to Scorpio’s
- Certainly not like Thomas
- Undeniably strange duets with awful slob
- Obviously cut down on workload but forced to come in
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What does DOUBTLESS mean?
DOUBTLESS adjective- Characterized by or experiencing no doubt at all, certain; undoubted; undoubting.
- Free from fear or suspicion.
- Without doubt; very probably, in all likelihood; doubtlessly.