The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word HOWLER
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result HOWLER
- Monkey’s glaring mistake?
- Bird caught by the woman, 19
- The lady's adopting a bird — big mistake!
- Put bird into care of that woman? Bad mistake!
- Monkey’s mistake
- Heroin smuggler’s blunder
- Loud wind, perhaps? Big mistake
- That woman keeping bird of prey is a glaring mistake
- That girl grasping bird makes a stupid mistake
- 5 in 9 29 having question given to the French King
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The straight part
We know that "Loud wind, perhaps/Big mistake" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case loud wind, perhaps/big mistake = howler.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does HOWLER mean?
HOWLER noun- That which howls, especially an animal such as a wolf or a howler monkey.
- A person hired to howl at a funeral.
- A painfully obvious mistake.
- A hilarious joke.
- A bitterly cold day.
- A person who expresses aggression openly in the form of threats.
- (sometimes figurative) A heavy fall.
- A serious accident (especially to come a howler or go a howler; compare come a cropper).
- A tremendous lie; a whopper.
- A fashionably but extravagantly overdressed man, a "howling swell".
- A 32-ounce ceramic, plastic, or stainless steel jug used to transport draft beer.