The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word CRAYON
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result CRAYON
- Drawing stick from a crony for corruption
- Original piece of cotton fabric in drawer
- Caught fabric in drawer
- Cabinet's primary material for drawer?
- Writer implicating boy in fraud
- Pencil case originally having smooth fabric
- Item for colouring a source of light in blue
- Writer for children allows light into study
- Line up that there drawer
- Shaft of light in trick becoming stick of wax?
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What does CRAYON mean?
CRAYON noun- A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.
- A colored pencil, a colouring pencil
- A crayon drawing, or a drawing with colored lines.
- A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.
- An informal map of a proposed rail route.
- To draw with a crayon.