The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word LANDING
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More clues leading to the result LANDING
- What comes at end of different flights
- Found at the end of a flight
- Space between flights?
- Arrival that’s between flights
- Flat patch in flight coming down
- Heather embraces joiner between flights
- A bit of skill and ingenuity in dock …
- It comes between flights, one way or another
- Bringing down a plane on flat area above step
- End of flight, outdoors and in
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The straight part
We know that "Arrival/that’s between flights" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case arrival/that’s between flights = landing.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does LANDING mean?
LANDING verb- To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
- To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
- To come into rest.
- To arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water.
- To bring to land.
- To acquire; to secure.
- To deliver.
- Corridor.
- Coming to a surface, as of an airplane or any descending object.
- A place on a shoreline where a boat lands.
- A level area at the top of a flight of stairs, or connecting one flight with another.