The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word TRAVERSES
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result TRAVERSES
- Crosses put up around Republican states
- Comes across poetry after erecting sculptures?
- Put up paintings, poetry and crosses
- Turn, oddly reluctant to meet striker’s first crosses
- Paintings sent back, along with poems and crosses
- Goes over review of paintings and poems
- Goes through rubbish, mostly saving poetry
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The straight part
We know that "Comes across" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case comes across = traverses.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 TRAVERSES mean?
TRAVERSES noun- A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
- A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject, usually for use as "control" i.e. angular reference system for later surveying work.
- A screen or partition.
- Something that thwarts or obstructs.
- A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
- A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc ("without this", i.e. without what follows).
- The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
- A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
- In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
- A traverse board.
- 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.