The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word TRAVERSED
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More clues leading to the result TRAVERSED
- Went over meeting of two people to finalise Mary Poppins?
- Old rocker entertaining party-goers went over the top maybe?
- Came across unruly youth around lively partygoers
- Got across point in lift, introducing poem
- Crossed lines occurring in traditional housing
- Crooked advertiser — I held out and negotiated
- To entertain party-goers old rocker went across
- Ted maintains ranters came across?
- Dramatist newspaper chief crossed
- Run back over lines covered
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The straight part
We know that "Came across" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case came across = traversed.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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What does TRAVERSED mean?
TRAVERSED verb- To travel across, often under difficult conditions.
- To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
- To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
- (artillery) To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
- , To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
- To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.
- To act against; to thwart or obstruct.
- To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
- To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
- To deny formally.
- To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.