The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word RITES
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More clues leading to the result RITES
- Is author heard in offices?
- Icons ducking special procedures
- Scripture upheld established practices
- Customs of outspoken authors
- Reportedly puts in order forms
- Pens, we’re told, ceremonial forms
- Reportedly composes ceremonies
- Ceremonies requiring legal freedoms on the radio
- Formal procedures necessary to inherit estate
- Homophonically, corresponds with ‘ceremonies‘
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What does RITES mean?
RITES noun- That which complies with justice, law or reason.
- A legal, just or moral entitlement.
- The right side or direction.
- The right hand or fist.
- The ensemble of right-wing political parties; political conservatives as a group.
- The outward or most finished surface, as of a coin, piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.
- A wave breaking from right to left (viewed from the shore).
- A religious custom.
- (by extension) A prescribed behavior.