The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word SPARED
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result SPARED
- Was relieved, having fought without focus
- Padre’s animated, being saved
- Let off for free day
- Treated mercifully, padre’s converted
- Let off hot bath, and what it could make you!
- Let off surplus dynamite, initially
- Saved one from terrible despair
- Let off extra duties at first
- Reprieved area moves west in extent
- Sort of town Communist liberated
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What does SPARED mean?
SPARED verb- To show mercy.
- To keep.
- To give up To deprive oneself of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.