The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word IN-LAWS
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result IN-LAWS
- Wassail not as spirited around start of November; Christmas is when you might bid them welcome
- Home with tatty walls, heartless relatives
- According to judges, sons are not consanguineous
- Marital relations
- Relations coming from a match
- They join the family after the match
- Principles supporting home – they come with marriage
- Relatives? Legally sons
- Relatives elected by rule books
- Spouse’s relations, // even when they break rules, remain these
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What does IN-LAWS mean?
IN-LAWS noun- A relative by marriage (or through affinity). Affinal relative; affine.
- Sometimes specifically a parent-in-law of one's child, for which the dedicated terms co-mother-in-law, co-father-in-law are rare