The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word CLANG
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More clues leading to the result CLANG
- Noise of family beginning to gather
- Family group’s beginning a racket
- Loud noise from family beginning to grate
- Resounding effect of Cosmo at first, one-time archbishop
- Ring family before end of evening
- Family planning in the end sound as a bell?
- Good to support family, sound as a bell
- Family beginning to generate loud noise
- Big noise making contribution to Gaelic language
- Resounding noise queen’s ignored in error
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The straight part
We know that "Noise" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case noise = clang.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does CLANG mean?
CLANG noun- A loud, ringing sound, like that made by free-hanging metal objects striking each other.
- Quality of tone.
- The cry of some birds, including the crane and the goose.
- A word or phrase linked only by sound and not by meaning, characteristic of some mental disorders.
- To strike (objects) together so as to produce a clang.
- To give out a clang; to resound.
- Any periodic sound, especially one composed of a fundamental and harmonics, as opposed to simple periodic sounds (sine tones).