The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word ATONE
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More clues leading to the result ATONE
- Pay for part of that on expenses
- Pay the price, expressing no disagreement
- The right time to repent?
- In agreement to make amends
- Make good your sins an hour after midday?
- Make up together after midnight?
- Make up a voice that’s united
- Make reparation around lunchtime?
- … opera company, volunteers, coming back to make amends for…
- Pay for a spirit when lunch is taken?
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What does ATONE mean?
ATONE verb- To make reparation, compensation, amends or satisfaction for an offence, crime, mistake or deficiency.
- To bring at one or at concordance; to reconcile; to suffer appeasement.
- To agree or accord; to be in accordance or harmony.
- To unite in making.
- To absolve (someone else) of wrongdoing, especially by standing as an equivalent.