The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word ACCOSTED
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result ACCOSTED
- Account expense journalist challenged
- Stopped to question editor after expense account’s reverse engineered
- Bill provided with advance financial information is held up
- Bill subjected to financial analysis and met with aggressively?
- Bill and Edward crossing Greek island will get waylaid
- Made an approach and holed in one, accepting price
- Approached brilliant director to take charge
- Statement worked out charges for what solicitor did?
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What does ACCOSTED mean?
ACCOSTED verb- To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.
- To join side to side; to border.
- (by extension) To sail along the coast or side of.
- To approach; to come up to.
- To speak to first; to address; to greet.
- To adjoin; to lie alongside.
- To assault.
- To solicit sexually.
- Supported on both sides by other charges; also, side by side