The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word CHAMBER
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More clues leading to the result CHAMBER
- Hard to invest in bank for legislative assembly
- Room with central heating control light
- Valuable fossil material found under church hall
- Room in which daily is invested with award
- Warning light on church hall
- Church given warning signal — it may contain explosive
- Recognition of good work in cleaner part of house
- House of Commons kind of pot?
- Fossilised resin is located under church hall
- Cold meat and drink but no drug found in bedroom
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The straight part
We know that "it may contain explosive" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case it may contain explosive = chamber.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does CHAMBER mean?
CHAMBER noun- A room or set of rooms, particularly:
- A chamberpot.
- The legislature or division of the legislature itself.
- Any enclosed space occupying or similar to a room.
- An enlarged space in an underground tunnel of a burrowing animal.
- The area holding the ammunition round at the initiation of its discharge.
- One of the bullet-holding compartments in the cylinder of a revolver.
- A short piece of ordnance or cannon which stood on its breech without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for celebrations and theatrical cannonades.
- One of the two atria or two ventricles of the heart.
- To enclose in a room.
- To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
- To place in a chamber, as a round of ammunition.
- To create or modify a gun to be a specific caliber.
- In martial arts, to prepare an offensive, defensive, or counteroffensive action by drawing a limb or weapon to a position where it may be charged with kinetic energy.
- To be lascivious.
- A container used for urination and defecation, particularly those used in early modern towns before the advent of the flush toilet.