The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word LUNCH
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result LUNCH
- Start to skip a meal
- One leaves to throw up a meal
- Meal project one’s lacking
- It’s not half madness to take a little Cheddar at this time
- Set off without a meal
- Meal for Parisian one inside 19 church
- What some ladies do makes the French get the ‘ump
- Start missing a meal
- Meal set up without no end of hoo-ha
- Meal left a French chef half cut
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The straight part
We know that "What some ladies do" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case what some ladies do = lunch.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does LUNCH mean?
LUNCH noun- A light meal usually eaten around midday, notably when not as main meal of the day.
- A break in play between the first and second sessions.
- (Minnesota) Any small meal, especially one eaten at a social gathering.
- To eat lunch.
- To treat to lunch.