The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 plus 3 letter word STAY PUT
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result STAY PUT
- Stick flexible as putty
- Don’t split up tasty fragments!
- Don’t move live and upset sheep
- Don’t move sheep back across river
- Remain for example to absorb tense place
- Don’t move prop and frame
- Don’t move prop, fixed
- Don’t move as guy starts to push us together
- Visit park and refuse to leave
- Guy by boat not new to remain in place
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