The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word OPALS
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More clues leading to the result OPALS
- These gemstones are ordinary, straight up
- Stones hit ought to be turned up
- Gems from Salop
- Friend’s wearing very large gemstones
- China’s overlaid with old gems
- Stones featuring old sidekick Watts’ finale
- Stones hit nothing back
- Soup ladles regularly used to find stones
- Jewelry has no friends
- Love friend's gemstones
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What does OPALS mean?
OPALS noun- A mineral consisting, like quartz, of silica, but inferior to quartz in hardness and specific gravity, of the chemical formula SiO2·nH2O.
- A colloquial name used in molecular biology referring to a particular stop codon sequence, "UGA."
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Nesolycaena.