The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word SERVICE
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More clues leading to the result SERVICE
- Set of dishes for religious ceremony
- Act of worship where sermon's half missed out - quite a failing!
- Rev. is about to lead church worship
- After losing first point, nervously receives this?
- See 68ac.
- Help in mass, for example
- Mass association of king and clergy member shortly in church area?
- Priest’s work: lecture on sin, Monday off sinning
- Notice about Queen Victoria’s delivery in court
- See 12ac
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The straight part
We know that "Act of worship" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case act of worship = service.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 SERVICE mean?
SERVICE noun- An act of being of assistance to someone.
- The practice of providing such a service as economic activity.
- A department in a company, an organization, a government department, etc.
- A function that is provided by one program or machine for another.
- The state of being subordinate to or employed by an individual or group
- The military.
- A set of dishes or utensils.
- The act of initially starting, or serving, the ball in play in tennis, volleyball, and other games.
- A religious rite or ritual.
- The serving, or delivery, of a summons or writ.
- (Israel, West Bank, also in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria) A taxi shared among unrelated passengers, each of whom pays part of the fare; often, it has a fixed route between cities.
- A musical composition for use in churches.
- Profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed.
- The materials used for serving a rope, etc., such as spun yarn and small lines.
- To serve.
- To perform maintenance.
- To inseminate through sexual intercourse
- To perform a sexual act.
- Service tree