The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word LITRE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result LITRE
- Volume was illuminating, with accompanying note
- Over a pint needed to get engineer tiddly
- Settled on measure of capacity
- In Paris, bed group of soldiers in unit
- Illuminated note in volume
- Tiler misread measure
- Left Italian red, not finishing contents of carafe?
- Partly full, it retains a quantity of liquid
- Amount of liquid in pail I trebled
- Extreme pieces of literature put together in volume
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The straight part
We know that "quantity of liquid" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case quantity of liquid = litre.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does LITRE mean?
LITRE noun- The metric unit of fluid measure, equal to one cubic decimetre. Symbols: l, L, ℓ
- A measure of volume equivalent to a litre.