The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word BASKET
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More clues leading to the result BASKET
- Hamper opinion surrounding request
- Head of bar takes remarkably poor sort of case
- In punt, request a picnic hamper?
- Hopeless sort of case one finally checks out?
- Sitting in punt, ask for picnic hamper
- Hamper request to partake in wager
- Be sure to hold appeal for goal
- Carrier‘s chance to frame question
- Hamper such a hopeless case
- Hamper request to be in punt
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The straight part
We know that "Hopeless sort of case/one finally checks out" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case hopeless sort of case/one finally checks out = basket.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does BASKET mean?
BASKET noun- A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
- A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a shop.
- In an online shop, a notional place to store items before ordering them.
- A circular hoop, from which a net is suspended, which is the goal through which the players try to throw the ball.
- The act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points.
- The game of basketball.
- A dance movement in some line dances, where men put their arms round the women's lower backs, and the women put their arms over the mens' shoulders, and the group (usually of four, any more is difficult) spins round, which should result in the women's feet leaving the ground.
- The bulge of the male genitals seen through clothing.
- In a stage-coach, two outside seats facing each other.
- A protection for the hand on a sword or a singlestick; a guard of a bladed weapon.
- (ballooning) The gondola or wicker basket suspended from the balloon, in which the pilot and passengers travel.
- The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
- Bastard.
- To place in a basket or baskets.
- To cross-collateralize the royalty advances for multiple works so that the creator is not paid until all of those works have achieved a certain level of success.