The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word INHERIT
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More clues leading to the result INHERIT
- Trendy? That girl has to be with it to take over
- Acquire from ancestors home and their ground
- Come into home — solitary male's gone out
- It’s at the crease their bats get left
- Succeed because of their supply
- Be left at home with that woman needing sex
- Anyhow, heir in time has to do this?
- Be left at home by husband, with weary back
- To be left in the lurch at heart upset nursing unit
- Be the recipient of hot lady’s sex appeal
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The straight part
We know that "Acquire from ancestors" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case acquire from ancestors = inherit.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 INHERIT mean?
INHERIT verb- To take possession of as a right (especially in Biblical translations).
- To receive (property, a title, etc.), by legal succession or bequest after the previous owner's death.
- To receive a characteristic from one's ancestors by genetic transmission.
- To derive from people or conditions previously in force.
- To come into an inheritance.
- To derive (existing functionality) from a superclass.
- To derive a new class from (a superclass).
- To put in possession of.