The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 plus 3 letter word OLD AGE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result OLD AGE
- Wrongly gaoled when one could be in a home?
- My goodness, look round — now we must be getting on
- . Good to leave gold and silver with last relative in final years
- Hundreds initially fleeing icy enclosure in autumn, so to speak
- Former leaders of any genuine eurosceptics in the 90s?
- Glad to revel in the extremes of one’s senility
- Call for no gore capturing clean sheep, a lot more than 3.
- Pull up, say, dandelion regularly when one droops?
- A foraying into recollection of old golden, golden years
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The straight part
We know that "senility/senility" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case senility/senility = old age.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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