Cryptic crossword clue
Monkey‘s laziness — lowest possible score issued 6

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word LANGUR

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The straight part
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What does LANGUR mean?

LANGUR noun
  1. Any of the Old World monkeys of the subfamily Colobinae, in the genera Simias, Trachypithecus (lutungs), Presbytis, (surilis), and Semnopithecus, (gray langurs).
  2. A gibbon of the genus Hoolock.

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