The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word WITCH
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result WITCH
- Listened to this or that, sorceress
- Charming woman with yen
- Enchanting woman accompanying boxing clubs
- Seductive woman with a teasing desire
- Crone brains child
- After removing top, change into an enchantress
- Wicked woman caught using traps
- Speller‘s question on the radio
- Ask question of speller
- Woman spelling …
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What does WITCH mean?
WITCH noun- A person who practices witchcraft; a woman or man who practices witchcraft.
- An ugly or unpleasant woman.
- One who exercises more-than-common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person.
- One given to mischief, especially a woman or child.
- A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.
- The stormy petrel.
- Any of a number of flatfish:
- The Indomalayan butterfly Araotes lapithis, of the family Lycaenidae.
- To practise witchcraft.
- To bewitch.
- To dowse for water.
- A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat and used as a taper.