The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word DREGS
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result DREGS
- Busy collecting something on plate that drinker’s left?
- Doctor, for example, initially studying remains
- Red Reg slurps contains sediment
- Doctor, for example, beginning to swallow sediment
- The most worthless date on car numbers
- What’s at the bottom of the bottle, for example, doctor’s swallowed
- Pharmacy business stocks ecstasy for you, on telephone deposit
- Car sold in 1966 bearing riff-raff
- Refuse cars from ’66 and ’86?
- Waste grounds
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The straight part
We know that "Waste grounds" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case waste grounds = dregs.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does DREGS mean?
DREGS noun- (collectively) The sediment settled at the bottom of a liquid; the lees in a container of unfiltered wine.
- (the dregs) The worst and lowest part of something.