The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word ASKED
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More clues leading to the result ASKED
- Finally, tea is drunk we had requested
- Requested air staff fly
- … posed in disguise, needing no introduction
- Begged with face covered but bareheaded
- Demanded a second look ultimately with journalist
- Questioned when board’s man met paper’s boss
- Demanded job, starting off with journalist
- Requested to take lid off barrel to get some eggnog and drank first
- No opening for job, education questioned
- Interrogated Basker's middle daughter
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What does ASKED mean?
ASKED verb- To request (information, or an answer to a question).
- To put forward (a question) to be answered.
- To interrogate or enquire of (a person).
- To request or petition; usually with for.
- To request permission to do something.
- To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity.
- To invite.
- To publish in church for marriage; said of both the banns and the persons.
- To take (a person's situation) as an example.