The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 2 letter word HE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Sunday Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result HE
- Mum stuffs chicken for Hercules
- Two chaps who'll make you giggle?
- Strong male or female collecting degree
- Amused expression from ambassador — on helium!
- Women only saving me — those chaps are macho!
- Mum stuffs chicken for macho sort
- Atlas perhaps having a note on margin
- Virile sort of chief, shunning public notice
- Tough guy has to call hospital up
- At sea, stop // the guy with a rejection
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The straight part
We know that "those chaps are macho!" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case those chaps are macho! = he.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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What does HE mean?
HE noun- The game of tag, or it, in which the player attempting to catch the others is called "he".
- The player attempting to catch the others in this game.
- A male.
- (personal) A male person or animal already known or implied.
- (personal, sometimes proscribed, see usage notes) A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant.
- (personal) An animal whose gender is unknown.
- A genderless object regarded as masculine, such as certain stars (e.g. Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter) or certain ships.
- The name of the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
- The name of the first letter of the Old South Arabian abjad.
- (usually reduplicated) An expression of laughter.