The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word HOUSE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Sunday Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result HOUSE
- Laughter about need to employ such a search?
- Stockings worn by upper-class in Commons, possibly
- Home, seeing us in garden
- Get used to indoor living in the way stress is reported
- Domestic party finding a target outside to exploit conflict
- Type of music for the audience
- Domestic having to spray round centre of study
- Hotel on English river to provide accommodation
- Legislative assembly, in practice, following call to attend
- Put up with uniform, initially, when made to wear stockings
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The straight part
We know that "to look after property" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case to look after property = house.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.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.
What does HOUSE mean?
HOUSE noun- A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
- The people who live in a house; a household.
- A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).
- The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.
- A theatre.
- A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature.
- A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.
- A place of rest or repose.
- A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.
- An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection.
- One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.
- The fourth Lenormand card.
- A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.
- The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.
- Lotto; bingo.
- A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
- A small stand of trees in a swamp.
- (sudoku) A set of cells in a Sudoku puzzle which must contain each digit exactly once, such as a row, column, or 3×3 box in classic Sudoku.
- To keep within a structure or container.
- To admit to residence; to harbor/harbour.
- To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
- To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
- To contain or cover mechanical parts.
- To drive to a shelter.
- To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
- To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
- To eat.
- House music.