The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word ASKING
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result ASKING
- Demanding, like the Queen’s partner?
- Doing a solicitor's work in a royal capacity
- When in Golf covering kilometres is demanding
- Lying in the warm sun without top and grilling
- How regent acts? This demands explanation!
- Requesting llama skin Gladstone bags
- Posing like royal
- Begging on the throne?
- What’s a poser doing when at Top Man?
- Like ruler to be demanding
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The straight part
We know that "Requesting" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case requesting = asking.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does ASKING mean?
ASKING 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.
- The act or process of posing a question or making a request.
- A request, or petition.