The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 plus 3 letter word NORTH SEA
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More clues leading to the result NORTH SEA
- A. N .Other's drunk lots of water
- Moving to Norway? You'll probably get over it!
- The drink undoing Sheraton?
- The main card player’s attending rehab regularly
- Beginning to survey another crude oil source?
- Shorten screws getting to a source of gas
- Heart’s no different — it’s this water
- Oil-bearing region on earth’s being developed
- Another’s wrecked in part of Atlantic
- Gas main?
Buddy explains!
The straight part
We know that "oil source" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case oil source = north sea.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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