The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word ARCHERY
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result ARCHERY
- More roguish end to country’s Olympic sport
- Gunners return from jovial, half-hearted target practice
- “Sport“, author unknown
- Sport that woman needs bow to start, close to body?
- Bow is needed by the woman with yen for this?
- In which a performer has to take a bow
- After crashing car the man goes by railway to get to sport
- A new cricket ball’s right to the front for sport
- Pointed, targeted activity – cunning, very? Not very
- A Roman Catholic Yankee corrals that lady to display shooting sport
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The straight part
We know that "sport" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case sport = archery.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 ARCHERY mean?
ARCHERY noun- The practice or sport of shooting arrows with a bow.
- A group of archers.