The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word ANTILLES
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More clues leading to the result ANTILLES
- Workers securing sick leave at last in WI islands
- Group of islands offering rival deal in uprising
- Relatively Speakingsmall archipelago
- Underwear quietly shunned around extremely liberal islands
- Sums of money advanced to protect unfortunate islands
- Soldiers perhaps around hostile eastern islands
- Contra gets deal after revolution in Caribbean islands
Buddy explains!
The straight part
We know that "Caribbean islands" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case caribbean islands = antilles.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.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.