The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word GRAVITY
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result GRAVITY
- Seriousness of natural attraction
- Force uses ill-gotten gains to control Congress
- Seriousness will tend to keep you grounded
- Sauce holding Italian’s earthy attraction
- Possible reason for dropping it in juice
- What’s responsible for sinking? Something in boat’s broken by it
- Sex appeal in stock attractive influence
- It’s lacking in seriousness producing extra money
- Extreme importance of the thing put into meaty juice
- It’s covered in sauce — that’ll bring you down to earth
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The straight part
We know that "What’s responsible for sinking" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case what’s responsible for sinking = gravity.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does GRAVITY mean?
GRAVITY noun- The state or condition of having weight; weight; heaviness.
- The state or condition of being grave; seriousness.
- The lowness of a note.
- Force on Earth's surface, of the attraction by the Earth's masses, and the centrifugal pseudo-force caused by the Earth's rotation, resulting from gravitation.
- (in casual discussion, also) Gravitation, universal force exercised by two bodies onto each other (gravity and gravitation are often used interchangeably).
- Specific gravity.