The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word LITHESOME
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result LITHESOME
- Flexible directions for entering illuminated residence
- Methodologies without good backing should be flexible
- Article in case stuck in tree, not stiff
- Homeliest characters can be graceful
- Supple, candlelit, he sometimes embraces
- Those mile runs — makes you supple!
- Moving with ease in short time, man thus cut fruit
- Flexible, holies met freely
- Nimble Helios met anew
- Flexible resort hotels to entertain one with massage on vacation
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What does LITHESOME mean?
LITHESOME adjective- Characterised or marked by litheness; pliant, limber, nimble, lissome.