The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word ENTAILS
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result ENTAILS
- Run out of guts, reaching limits of will
- Calls for offal right away
- Excess in drinking vessel involves falsification
- Leads to standard for measuring shadows
- Trouble filling hospital department’s needs
- Brings about hospital department troubles
- Requires guts? Run away!
- Necessitates mending net before setting sail
- Necessarily involves a silent working
- Involves a portion of chicken tail soup
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What does ENTAILS mean?
ENTAILS verb- To imply or require.
- To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as a heritage.
- To appoint hereditary possessor.
- To cut or carve in an ornamental way.
- That which is entailed. Hence:
- Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.