The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word IDEALS
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result IDEALS
- Is about to deliver standards of perfection
- Dreams of Deliaโs cooking
- Island trade Samoan leader values
- Morals of ladies becoming corrupted
- What drug pusher might say at entrance: โSweet dreamsโ
- Principles one compromises?
- Various ladies show high principles
- Ladies in fashion or models
- Current partner with wheels seeking the highest standards
- Ladies could be perfect examples
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The straight part
We know that "standards of perfection" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case standards of perfection = ideals.The cryptic/wordplay part
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Crossword Answer definitions
IDEALS noun- A perfect standard of beauty, intellect etc., or a standard of excellence to aim at.
- A subring closed under multiplication by its containing ring.
- (lattice theory) A non-empty lower set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary suprema (a.k.a. joins).
- A collection of sets, considered small or negligible, such that every subset of each member and the union of any two members are also members of the collection.
- (Lie theory) A Lie subalgebra (subspace that is closed under the Lie bracket) ๐ of a given Lie algebra ๐ such that the Lie bracket [๐,๐] is a subset of ๐.