The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word NOSE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result NOSE
- Natural olfactory sensor, evidently always at the front?
- Gradually moving to pinch queen’s ornament
- Elizabethan fragrant plant eater’s absorbing English book
- English boy returning to pry
- Call to abolish home counties maybe a central feature
- English boy upset bellows-mender — blowing this?
- Note lout accepting good fortune locally — bat’s face may show it
- Scent something sometimes blown in your face?
- Informer has information to report
- Gutless viking informer
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What does NOSE mean?
NOSE noun- A protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell.
- A snout, the nose of an animal.
- The tip of an object.
- The bulge on the side of a piece of a jigsaw puzzle, that fits into the hole of its adjacent piece.
- The length of a horse’s nose, used to indicate the distance between horses at the finish of a race, or any very close race.
- A perfumer.
- The power of smelling.
- Bouquet, the smell of something, especially wine.
- The skill in recognising bouquet.
- (by extension) Skill at finding information.
- A downward projection from a cornice.
- An informer.
- To move cautiously by advancing its front end.
- To snoop.
- To detect by smell or as if by smell.
- To push with one's nose; to nuzzle.
- To defeat (as in a race or other contest) by a narrow margin; sometimes with out.
- To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal twang.
- To furnish with a nose.
- To confront; be closely face to face or opposite to.