The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word IMPLY
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result IMPLY
- Suggest just getting rid of leader
- Absolutely doesn’t open hint
- Insinuate plainly where son has gone
- Hint in straightforward manner: Leader must go
- Spotted first priest leaving hint
- Suggest thickness of one metre?
- Hint‘s easily uncovered
- Hint that simply pointless
- Indirectly express son’s to go alone
- Merely dropping small hint
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What does IMPLY mean?
IMPLY verb- (of a proposition) to have as a necessary consequence
- (of a person) to suggest by logical inference
- (of a person or proposition) to hint; to insinuate; to suggest tacitly and avoid a direct statement
- To enfold, entangle.