The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word ECONOMICAL
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result ECONOMICAL
- English provoking humour about working without trying too hard
- A lone comic, terribly cheap
- Using little energy, performing amusing covers
- Online scam has zero claim to work for saving money
- Saving money with false claim on author, initially
- Saving claim one prepared about small company
- Finally be amusing about working and saving money
- One comic off-beat, a learner becoming cheap
- Careful performance’s ending with funny entertaining number
- Prudent, comic alone in resort
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What does ECONOMICAL mean?
ECONOMICAL adjective- Careful with money so as not to spend too much; prudent; thrifty.
- Saving money or resources.
- Relating to economy in any other sense.