The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word CYCLONE
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More clues leading to the result CYCLONE
- Carbon copy covering unknown meteorological event
- Storm about in circle
- Vacant celebrity copy causing storm
- Storm over replica Twombly
- Bowling during series creates storm in Sri Lanka
- Working through period of
- Violent storm happening in recurrent series
- Evacuated city, double big blow?
- Nothing short of evasive on e.g. Dolly’s depression
- Revolution covering working with meteorological phenomenon
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What does CYCLONE mean?
CYCLONE noun- (broad sense) A weather phenomenon consisting of a system of winds rotating around a center of low atmospheric pressure
- (narrow sense) Such weather phenomenon occurring in the South Pacific and Indian Ocean
- A low pressure system.
- The more or less violent, small-scale circulations such as tornadoes, waterspouts, and dust devils.
- A strong wind.
- A cyclone separator; the cylindrical vortex tube within such a separator