The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word ESCAPED
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More clues leading to the result ESCAPED
- Avoided wearing cloak after first signs of English summer
- Bolted door's opening with key, at first
- Eased unevenly around headland and broke free
- Ran off to get key copied
- Fled
- Got away with drugs wearing part of Superman costume
- Ladies’ cape discounted, stores got free
- With Massa’s rear puncturing, high speed around first corner is missing
- Made a bolt for it — ace sped away
- Ceased wandering around Portugal and fled
Buddy explains!
The straight part
We know that "Avoided" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case avoided = escaped.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 ESCAPED mean?
ESCAPED verb- To get free; to free oneself.
- To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
- To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
- To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
- To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the same context, often by prefixing with another character.
- To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
- Having escaped, especially from prison or another place of confinement.