The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word STRAYS
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More clues leading to the result STRAYS
- Poor Cats actor finally gets dressed in old corsets
- Wanders with good person, artist’s unknown son
- Holy man shafts homeless people
- Guys about right as drifters?
- Wanders away from street lights
- In Sargasso Sea at first carrier drifts off course
- Sins, poking end of finger into female underwear
- Time to fish on board ship that drifts
- Speaks, when he and I have left, about their homeless
- Animals unleashed on society?
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The straight part
We know that "homeless people" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case homeless people = strays.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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What does STRAYS mean?
STRAYS noun- Any domestic animal that has no enclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray.
- One who is lost, either literally or metaphorically.
- The act of wandering or going astray.
- An area of common land or place administered for the use of general domestic animals, i.e. "the stray"
- To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.
- To wander from one's limits; to rove or roam at large; to go astray.
- To wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.
- To cause to stray.