The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word AMISH
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More clues leading to the result AMISH
- This writer's about to chop wood for people associated with PA
- Part of Birmingham is home for religious sect
- American sectarians hard on English novelist
- People avoiding technology roughly before noon?
- English novelist with hard, strict sect
- Sort of early religious sect
- Essentially Anabaptist: moral, insular, seclusionist herd?
- Scotsman in the East End, member of a sect
- Devout sect wrongly tailed husband
- English author hard on sect member
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