The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word BUTTON
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result BUTTON
- Horn working for racing driver
- Something of little value hardly raised following objection
- Rear end supported by knob
- It might make fast driver
- Fast driver? Only 100 mph!
- Formula 1 driver just going above 100
- Former Asian PM divorced husband by note for stud
- Cigarette end on bit of the mattress?
- Switch end, playing
- One can fasten a garment yet not in reflection
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The straight part
We know that "One can fasten a garment" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case one can fasten a garment = button.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does BUTTON mean?
BUTTON noun- One who adjusts, especially for the insurance industry's employment title "loss adjuster" (or "claims adjuster" in the United States).
- A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.
- A mechanical device meant to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.
- An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.
- A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.
- A bud.
- The head of an unexpanded mushroom.
- The clitoris.
- The center (bullseye) of the house.
- The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.
- A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.
- The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.
- A person who acts as a decoy.
- A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement marking painted stripe.
- A methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug).
- A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, such as a door.
- A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
- A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
- A small white blotch on a cat's coat.
- A unit of length equal to 1/12 inch.
- The means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence.
- In an instrument of the violin family, the near-semicircular shape extending from the top of the back plate of the instrument, meeting the heel of the neck.
- The least amount of care or interest; a whit or jot.
- The final joke at the end of a comedic act (such as a sketch, set, or scene).
- A button man; a professional assassin.
- The final segment of a rattlesnake's rattle.
- In a violin-family instrument, the carved wooden plug which sits in the bottom block of the instrument.
- To fasten with a button.
- To be fastened by a button or buttons.
- To stop talking.