The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word DIVERS
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More clues leading to the result DIVERS
- Several / people looking for shipwreck?
- Several loons?
- Various kingfishers, maybe
- Plungers of varying types from the past
- Several footballers going to the ground, needlessly
- Various rivals of Tom Daley
- Various pelicans, say
- Several footballers trying to get a free kick?
- Various old aquatic birds
- … various / birds
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The straight part
We know that "Various" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case various = divers.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does DIVERS mean?
DIVERS noun- Someone who dives, especially as a sport.
- Someone who works underwater; a frogman.
- The loon (bird).
- The New Zealand sand diver.
- The long-finned sand diver.
- A passenger carrying vehicle using an underground route; specially, a diver tram, one using the former Kingsway tramway subway (1906-1952).
- A pickpocket.
- A competitor in certain sports who is known to regularly imitate being fouled, with the purpose of getting his/her opponent penalised.
- Consisting of many different elements; various.
- Different; dissimilar; distinct; not the same
- Capable of various forms; multiform.
- Composed of people with a variety of different demographic characteristics in terms of, for example, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, etc., and having a sizeable representation of people that are minorities in a given area.
- Belonging to a minority group.