The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word MAXIMUM
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result MAXIMUM
- Greek character retires after saying most
- Old lady after skirt top
- Top of the range for very large parent?
- Top mother embracing proposition, exuding love
- Most saying, “I can’t think what to say”
- Before mountaineer’s original show of hesitation, skirt peak
- Top man, I will be standing by mother
- Saying about foreign character’s top degree
- Top eleven embraced by mother with flower
- Largest two mothers bearing eleven
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The straight part
We know that "Top" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case top = maximum.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does MAXIMUM mean?
MAXIMUM noun- The highest limit
- The greatest value of a set or other mathematical structure, especially the global maximum or a local maximum of a function
- An upper bound of a set which is also an element of that set
- The largest value of a batch or sample or the upper bound of a probability distribution
- A 147 break; the highest possible break
- A score of 180 with three darts
- A scoring shot for 6 runs
- To the highest degree.