The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word ECHOES
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result ECHOES
- Slavishly copies city gardens
- Reminders for key tasks Republican leader ignored
- Parrots from city gardens
- Sounds reverberating from city hotel lovers occasionally used
- Responses heard with ease by radio operators
- Repeats point about residential care facilities losing money
- Evocative memories of city gardens
- City house with French art showing parrots
- Returned calls from city dwellings miles away
- English mostly decided to accept European repercussions
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The straight part
We know that "Parrots" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case parrots = echoes.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does ECHOES mean?
ECHOES noun- A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
- An utterance repeating what has just been said.
- A device in verse in which a line ends with a word which recalls the sound of the last word of the preceding line.
- Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
- The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.
- The letter E in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
- (whist) A signal, played in the same manner as a trump signal, made by a player who holds four or more trumps (or, as played by some, exactly three trumps) and whose partner has led trumps or signalled for trumps.
- (whist) A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one's partner.
- (of a sound or sound waves) To reflect off a surface and return.
- To reflect back (a sound).
- (by extension) To repeat (another's speech, opinion etc.).
- To repeat its input as input to some other device or system.
- (whist) To give the echo signal, informing one's partner about cards one holds.
- The visual image formed by an echocardiograph.
- The use of ultrasound to produce images of the heart.