The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word CAESURA
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More clues leading to the result CAESURA
- Poet’s break from roughly lifting a device
- Roughly dodge over a gap in line
- A trick a conjuror started up in short break during poetry recital
- Flying saucer’s given academician pause
- Break in line may be cause of rail accidents, initially
- Pause, about to turn a trick
- Pause as a cure for breakdown
- Break a saucer in pieces
- Break a saucer in pieces?
- Emperor deprived of gas cutting short river break
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The straight part
We know that "short break during poetry recital" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case short break during poetry recital = caesura.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 CAESURA mean?
CAESURA noun- A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art.
- (Classical prosody) Using two words to divide a metrical foot.
- The caesura mark ‖ or
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- A break of an era or other measure of history and time; where one era ends and another begins.