The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word MAIDEN
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result MAIDEN
- Untried troops accepting assistance
- For a young girl it’s sort of over
- Benefit that people must carry over
- Young lady and chap catching freshwater fish
- Hands clasping support first
- Miss that may be clapped on the cricket pitch
- A girl gets assistance when males are around
- Blokes crowd round to help girl
- Might she wear tights having no runs?
- Miss people without support
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The straight part
We know that "Might she wear tights/having no runs" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case might she wear tights/having no runs = maiden.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does MAIDEN mean?
MAIDEN noun- One of the triune goddesses of the Lady in Wicca alongside the Crone and Mother representing a girl or a young woman
- A girl or an unmarried young woman.
- A female virgin.
- A man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention.
- A maidservant.
- A clothes maiden.
- An unmarried woman, especially an older woman.
- A racehorse without any victory, i.e. one having a "virgin record".
- A horse race in which all starters are maidens.
- A Scottish counterpart of the guillotine.
- A maiden over.
- A machine for washing linen.
- Virgin.
- (of a female, human or animal) Without offspring.
- Like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden.
- Being a first occurrence or event.
- Being an over in which no runs are scored.
- Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
- (of a fortress) Never having been captured or violated.
- (of a tree) Grown from seed and never pruned