The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word RESCUES
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More clues leading to the result RESCUES
- Saves signals from sappers?
- Deliveries not properly secure with end of services
- Saves, regrets holding keyboard key
- Regrets key being jammed — gets out after trouble?
- Regrets holding key but frees from captivity
- Takes snooker shot again, with second dropping in, gets out of trouble
- Saves and secures stranger
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The straight part
We know that "Saves" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case saves = rescues.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does RESCUES mean?
RESCUES noun- An act or episode of rescuing, saving.
- A liberation, freeing.
- The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril
- A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded
- A rescuee.
- To save from any violence, danger or evil.
- To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.
- To recover forcibly.
- To deliver by arms, notably from a siege.
- To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.
- To achieve something positive under difficult conditions.