The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 2 plus 4 letter word OF LATE
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result OF LATE
- Apartment in Odense gutted recently
- Nothing felt different about America recently
- … recently put back in metal folder
- Apartment taken in outskirts of Oundle, recently
- . Pimlico flat exit locked up recently
- Old apartment put on sale, finally, in the recent past
- Recently Oscar got deflated by egghead
- Oscar got deflated by oriental recently
- Old fine, overdue recently
- Nothing boring ending on plate recently
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