The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word SHRIMP
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More clues leading to the result SHRIMP
- Small chap’s title showering respect on frequenter of SW1?
- Tiny kid getting quiet parent initially on edge
- Marine creature? Millions found in quiet movement of tide
- Fish in quiet river with mischievous child
- Be sparing with hot, not cold, seafood
- A shipmaster, when not at sea, ordered seafood
- . Little man in the pink?
- Weak character’s quiet tear about male
- Insignificant individual, quiet, terribly prim
- Sixties’ model losing weight, tiny little thing
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The straight part
We know that "Small chap" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case small chap = shrimp.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does SHRIMP mean?
SHRIMP noun- Any of many swimming, often edible crustaceans, chiefly of the infraorder Caridea or the suborder Dendrobranchiata, with slender legs, long whiskers and a long abdomen.
- The flesh of such crustaceans.
- A small, puny or unimportant person.
- To fish for shrimp.
- To contract; to shrink.