The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word JOVIAL
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result JOVIAL
- Backslapping woman with little bottle
- Happy over half caught in jail break
- Genial sweetheart needs drug bottle
- Happy little woman with bottle
- Jack, over bottle, becomes jolly
- Little woman on the bottle is cheerful
- Cheery work, draining black bottle
- John, half-gone on the bottle, is jolly
- Genial one from Scotland I love on the bottle
- Little woman with small bottle showing sociable humour
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What does JOVIAL mean?
JOVIAL adjective- Cheerful and good-humoured; jolly, merry.
- Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Jupiter; having the characteristics of a person under such influence (see sense 1).