The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word SETTERS
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result SETTERS
- Sun perhaps initially seductive for compilers
- My dogs?
- Perhaps The Sun’s for people like me
- 27 of 6s?
- Elgar & Co? They’re not all English but they may all be barking
- Hounds me and others like me!
- Dogs in streets going mad
- Us, characters without brain, nasty essentially to be the head
- Dogs running around streets
- Colonists abandoned large dogs
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What does SETTERS mean?
SETTERS noun- One who sets something, especially a typesetter.
- A long-haired breed of gundog (Wikipedia).
- The player who is responsible for setting, or passing, the ball to teammates for an attack.
- A function used to modify the value of some property of an object, contrasted with the getter.
- (in combinations) A game or match that lasts a certain number of sets.
- One who hunts victims for sharpers.
- One who adapts words to music in composition.
- A shallow seggar for porcelain.