Cryptic crossword clue
Container inverted over many a pantomime character 7

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word BUTTONS

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The straight part

We know that "pantomime character" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case pantomime character = buttons.

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What does BUTTONS mean?

1. One who adjusts, especially for the insurance industry's employment title "loss adjuster" (or "claims adjuster" in the United States).

1. A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.
2. A mechanical device meant to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.
3. An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.
4. A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.
5. A bud.
6. The head of an unexpanded mushroom.
7. The clitoris.
8. The center (bullseye) of the house.
9. The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.
10. A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.
11. The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.
12. A person who acts as a decoy.
13. A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement marking painted stripe.
14. A methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug).
15. A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, such as a door.
16. A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
17. A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
18. A small white blotch on a cat's coat.
19. A unit of length equal to 1/12 inch.
20. The means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence.
21. In an instrument of the violin family, the near-semicircular shape extending from the top of the back plate of the instrument, meeting the heel of the neck.
22. The least amount of care or interest; a whit or jot.
23. The final joke at the end of a comedic act (such as a sketch, set, or scene).
24. A button man; a professional assassin.
25. The final segment of a rattlesnake's rattle.

1. To fasten with a button.
2. To be fastened by a button or buttons.
3. To stop talking.

1. The dung of sheep.
2. A remote control.
3. A boy servant, or page.
4. A policeman.

1. In a violin-family instrument, the carved wooden plug which sits in the bottom block of the instrument.

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