The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word VISITOR
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More clues leading to the result VISITOR
- Six men accommodating model tourist
- One calls round after six to relax, right?
- Sunshade worn by Italian tourist
- I call it sunscreen, externally applied
- Arrival at gate? Face guard, keeping hold of it
- Guest gets eye-protection with it in
- Tourist sees peak when touring Italy
- Person turning up mask has it covered
- Alien, that thing wearing mask
- Holidaymaker, Italian wearing form of protection for the eyes
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What does VISITOR mean?
VISITOR noun- Someone who visits someone else; someone staying as a guest.
- Someone who pays a visit to a specific place or event; a sightseer or tourist.
- (usually in the plural) Someone, or a team, that is playing away from home.
- A person authorized to visit an institution to see that it is being managed properly.
- An extraterrestrial being on Earth for any reason.
- An object which lands or passes by Earth or its orbit.
- A head or overseer of an institution such as a college (in which case, equivalent to the university's chancellor) or cathedral or hospital, who resolves disputes, gives ceremonial speeches, etc.
- The object in the visitor pattern that performs an operation on the elements of a structure one by one.