The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word BENTS
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What does BENTS mean?
BENTS noun- An inclination or talent.
- A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
- The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
- A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
- Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
- A transverse frame of a framed structure; a subunit of framing.
- Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
- Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
- A grassy area, grassland.
- The old dried stalks of grasses.