The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word CLUBS
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result CLUBS
- Young reporters covering liberal organisations that might need remembering?
- Clobber son required: black suit
- Extremely cool American collecting black suit
- Youngsters left inside discos
- Student stuffing litter in suit
- Black suit needed for cabarets
- Suit line adopted by boys in uniform
- Suit for social venues
- Discotheque's bashes
- Chicago team gets 50 bats
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The straight part
We know that "suit/suit" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case suit/suit = clubs.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does CLUBS mean?
CLUBS noun- An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.
- A heavy stick intended for use as a weapon or plaything.
- A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
- An establishment that provides staged entertainment, often with food and drink, such as a nightclub.
- A black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.
- Any set of people with a shared characteristic.
- A club sandwich.
- The slice of bread in the middle of a club sandwich.
- To hit with a club.
- To join together to form a group.
- To combine into a club-shaped mass.
- To go to nightclubs.
- To pay an equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense.
- To raise, or defray, by a proportional assessment.
- To drift in a current with an anchor out.
- To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
- To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end.
- To turn the breech of (a musket) uppermost, so as to use it as a club.
- One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♣.
- A game in which questions are asked for the purpose of enabling the questioners to discover a word or thing previously selected by two persons who answer the questions.