The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word GRANDPA
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More clues leading to the result GRANDPA
- Splendid secretary who’s been in the family a long time?
- Relative’s very modest salary
- Piano and sound system providing pop for mum?
- Family man with pretty secretary
- Currency banked by doctor, a relative
- Doctor pockets money, meeting a relative
- Relative‘s piano, a piano that’s upright
- Old man‘s instrument missing number one and the final number
- Relation parading around, the first person to emerge
- A thousand quiet before man up the tree
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The straight part
We know that "this" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case this = grandpa.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does GRANDPA mean?
GRANDPA noun- Grandfather