Cryptic crossword clue
Pack, card player works out, lacking spades 6

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word WOLVES

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The straight part
We know that "Pack" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case pack = wolves.
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What does WOLVES mean?

WOLVES noun
  1. The gray wolf, specifically all subspecies of the gray wolf (Canis lupus) that are not dingoes or dogs.
  2. A man who makes amorous advances to many women.
  3. A wolf tone or wolf note.
  4. Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.
  5. One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.
  6. A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.
  7. An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus.
  8. A willying machine.
WOLVES verb
  1. To behave like a wolf.
  2. Of an organ, to make a hollow whining sound like that of a wolf.

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