The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word LYDIA
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More clues leading to the result LYDIA
- Kingdom once a great place, mostly, to be brought up
- Ancient region largely evacuated before help turned up
- Ancient kingdom largely evacuated, charity recalled
- Woman identified in ghastly diatribe
- The old country’s daily crap
- She‘s suffering daily
- Austen girl fills in weekly diary
- ‘Lady I converted’ – as Paul said of me in Philippi?
- Girl needing daily refreshment
- Poem mostly about a girl
Buddy explains!

The straight part
We know that "Woman" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case woman = lydia.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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