The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word BOTTOM
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result BOTTOM
- In good times, teetotaller’s lowest point
- Weaver finding support
- Weaver as lowest of the low?
- Base saw British uprising
- Last Shakespearean character
- Shakespearean weaver in bed
- The foot is part of the human body
- Lowest Shakespearean character
- Buttocks burgeon over time, ultimately vast
- Stamina shown by Pole in race? Just the opposite
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The straight part
We know that "Stamina" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case stamina = bottom.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does BOTTOM mean?
BOTTOM noun- The lowest part of anything.
- Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
- Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.
- The buttocks or anus.
- A cargo vessel, a ship.
- Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.
- The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.
- (BDSM) A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
- A person with a preference for being penetrated during sexual intercourse.
- A bottom quark.
- The lowest part of a container.
- A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
- The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.
- An abyss.
- Power of endurance.
- Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
- (usually: bottoms or bottomland) Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.
- To furnish (something) with a bottom.
- To wind (like a ball of thread etc.).
- To establish or found (something) on or upon.
- (chiefly in passive) To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath.
- To be based or grounded.
- To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action.
- To reach the bottom of something.
- To fall to the lowest point.
- To be the more passive or receiving partner in a sexual act or relationship; to be submissive in a BDSM relationship; to be anally penetrated in gay sex.
- The lowest or last place or position.