The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SHEAF
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More clues leading to the result SHEAF
- The woman, a female offering something that's corny?
- Note what's up in the papers?
- Is he afraid to smuggle papers?
- Two females securing a bundle
- Bundle, not entirely secure, fellow’s opened
- Female with a fine bundle
- Woman has a fine bundle of papers
- Cook reportedly accepts Armonie’s 24 arrows
- Female with a female bundle
- The girl has a fine bundle
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The straight part
We know that "the papers?" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case the papers? = sheaf.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does SHEAF mean?
SHEAF noun- A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
- Any collection of things bound together; a bundle.
- A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer.
- A quantity of arrows, usually twenty-four.
- A sheave.
- An abstract construct in topology that associates data to the open sets of a topological space, together with well-defined restrictions from larger to smaller open sets, subject to the condition that compatible data on overlapping open sets corresponds, via the restrictions, to a unique datum on the union of the open sets.
- To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves
- To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves.