The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word STREAK
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More clues leading to the result STREAK
- Mark runs animal food stores
- Vein runs through meat
- Run out of clothes?
- “Run bearing rump”? The opposite: it’s “run baring rump”
- Criminal takes over royal line
- Run in street, shamefully naked, unclothed
- Tears about end of rock band
- Son takes long journey, including a run
- Band‘s run exposed
- Smear last of butter inside expensive cut of meat
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The straight part
We know that "Mark" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case mark = streak.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does STREAK mean?
STREAK noun- An irregular line left from smearing or motion.
- A continuous series of like events.
- The color of the powder of a mineral. So called, because a simple field test for a mineral is to streak it against unglazed white porcelain.
- A moth of the family Geometridae, Chesias legatella.
- A tendency or characteristic, but not a dominant or pervasive one.
- A strake.
- A rung or round of a ladder.
- The act of streaking, or running naked through a public area
- To have or obtain streaks.
- To run naked in public. (Contrast flash)
- To create streaks.
- To move very swiftly.
- To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.