The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word TAURUS
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result TAURUS
- Constellation Greek character starts to recognise using specs
- Rent our people picked up for house
- Bull left us with lacerations, by the sound of it
- Bull inflicted lacerations on us, we'd say
- Sign letter to America about Redshank
- I appreciate that planet doesn’t need an earth sign
- Back from market with a shaggy ox or bull
- Stars of game hugged by Greek characters
- Stars getting cheers before ball game in America
- Bull terrier’s grabbing teacher having removed lead
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The straight part
We know that "earth sign" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case earth sign = taurus.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.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.