The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word SEEING
I've seen this crossword clue in The Sunday Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result SEEING
- Making out with Carol, dropping some Es
- Vision coming through slowly, having no power
- Calling on eastern European to cut grass
- Angry, ignoring short article’s vision
- Understanding and looking for missing king
- Noticing headless insect in grass
- Observing and understanding
- Reason for believing in genies, possibly
- Looking for understanding
- It's believing, proverbially
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The straight part
We know that "Reason for believing" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case reason for believing = seeing.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does SEEING mean?
SEEING verb- (stative) To perceive or detect with the eyes, or as if by sight.
- To form a mental picture of.
- (social) To meet, to visit.
- To be the setting or time of.
- (by extension) To ensure that something happens, especially while witnessing it.
- To wait upon; attend, escort.
- To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.
- To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if or whether).
- (used in the imperative) To reference or to study for further details.
- To examine something closely, or to utilize something, often as a temporary alternative.
- To include as one of something's experiences.
- The action of the verb to see; eyesight.
- The movement or distortion of a telescopic image as a result of turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere.
- Having vision; not blind.
- Inasmuch as; in view of the fact that.