The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word ARCADES
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result ARCADES
- Undercover places for shopping a scared criminal
- With cars vandalised outside, a retired journo covered walks
- A sacred structure of covered passages
- Bill enters rambling races and walks
- Walks to give discharge to one of the French
- Covered passages in a sacred building
- These extensions make west wing of 1ac an amusing place to be
- What may follow shopping scared a revolutionary
- Unpopular cad escorted around shopping malls
- Game parlours are sorry at first about churl
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The straight part
We know that "covered passages /covered passages" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case covered passages /covered passages = arcades.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 ARCADES mean?
ARCADES noun- A row of arches.
- A covered passage, usually with shops on both sides.
- An establishment that runs coin-operated games.