The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word STADIUM
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result STADIUM
- Small thing I included in complete sports venue
- Admit us for sport here?
- Admits allowing United in to play - here?
- Balls could get kicked here, but nudist’s failed to start playing with a ‘scrotum base’
- A tidy sum, no end of money, spent for 34 ground perhaps
- It’s mud that’s nasty outside a sporting arena
- Roughly admit us into sports venue
- One type of publicity I must spread round arena
- Mud? It’s a winding track …
- Admit being unsettled with US venue
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The straight part
We know that "venue" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case venue = stadium.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 STADIUM mean?
STADIUM noun- A venue where sporting events are held.
- An Ancient Greek racecourse, especially, the Olympic course for foot races.
- A Greek measure of length, being the chief one used for itinerary distances, also adopted by the Romans for nautical and astronomical measurements, equal to 600 Greek or 625 Roman feet, or 125 Roman paces, or to 606 feet, 9 inches.
- A kind of telemeter for measuring the distance of an object of known dimensions, by observing the angle it subtends.
- A graduated rod used to measure the distance of the place where it stands from an instrument having a telescope, by observing the number of the graduations of the rod that are seen between certain parallel wires (stadia wires) in the field of view of the telescope.
- A life stage of an organism.