The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word SEVENTIES
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result SEVENTIES
- Decade with which number of dwarfs will have connections
- Altogether the last three knockout rounds that spanned several years
- Over half a dozen links of forty years ago
- Excessive neckwear for such ages?
- Birth of some steady alliances around the time OPEC was formed
- School uniform matches period in history
- Decade unvarying in pens
- Pens bracketing equal range of numbers
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What does SEVENTIES mean?
SEVENTIES noun- The decade of the 1870s, 1970s, etc.
- The decade of one's life from age 70 through age 79.
- (temperature, rates) The range between 70 and 79.
- From or evoking the 71st through 80th years of a century (chiefly the 1970s).