The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word IDAHO
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result IDAHO
- State “I do”, securing a husband
- State of Florida holidays?
- State bore recalled stopping Nixon regularly
- State of house at foot of Cretan mountain
- I had a house in American state
- US state where I had a house
- US lawyer in one US state almost backing another
- Part of Florida, homely US state
- I had a house in an American state
- Wild fashion regularly on show in a state
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