The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word THIRSTY
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result THIRSTY
- Figure cups useless ultimately – in need of a jar?
- Eager in solving square root of 900 divided by s
- Figure gulping swiftly at first – because this?
- Needing a drink, son gets stuck into Triple X?
- Figure drinking first of sherries, dry
- Damien enters outskirts of Torquay in need of a drink
- Wanting a drink with leaders of the hunt in Yorkshire
- Leaving party, dotty Irish drunk — not one needing a Guinness?
- Needing a tipple following the second mostly scruffy place
- Try this cocktail, it’s dry
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What does THIRSTY mean?
THIRSTY adjective- Needing to drink.
- Causing thirst; giving one a need to drink (informal).
- Craving something.
- Desiring sex.