The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word FISHNET
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result FISHNET
- Seek compliments, possibly after taking everything off? Like the stockings!
- . Kind of tights in which Molly might be found
- Fabric woven from finest end of cloth
- Kinky fetish trousers – new, fine mesh fabric
- Sort of stockings an old trout could get into?
- The fins’ entanglement
- The fins twitchy in this?
- The fins will get tangled in it
- Angle on profit from such fabric
- Sexy stockings cast hens into fit
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The straight part
We know that "fine mesh fabric" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case fine mesh fabric = fishnet.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does FISHNET mean?
FISHNET noun- A net used to catch fish.
- A fabric with an open diamond-shaped structure; normally used for stockings etc
- (usually in plural) Stockings made of fishnet fabric.