The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word NIECES
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More clues leading to the result NIECES
- . Pleasant son welcomes English relatives
- English seen in Riviera city society with family
- Relatives requiring new compositions without piano
- A German upset these French relations
- Relations with pleasant son involving sweetheart
- Relations terribly insecure, having abandoned biblical city
- Relations creating awful scene around one
- Second time scene is shot, for those who are relatively junior
- Relatives play out Scene I
- Scene I shot with relatives
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The straight part
We know that "Relatives" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case relatives = nieces.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does NIECES mean?
NIECES noun- A daughter of one’s sibling, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law; either the daughter of one's brother ("fraternal niece"), or of one's sister ("sororal niece").