The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word ENCLAVE
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More clues leading to the result ENCLAVE
- Isolate English with numerical control over Scottish remainder
- Some land in Valence for redevelopment
- In from France, learner entering cave area unlike its surroundings
- Somewhere to go from ’ere includes one place inside another
- The Vatican's one English hub accommodates 150
- Coppers heading off to arrest John in Vatican City, say
- Cockney’s thus entertaining ladies, maybe, in Kaliningrad, say
- First woman to embrace clan reassembled in eg Lesotho
- French in warning about lake – area surrounded
- Clean up extremely volatile isolated territory
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The straight part
We know that "Vatican City, say" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case vatican city, say = enclave.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 ENCLAVE mean?
ENCLAVE noun- A political, cultural or social entity or part thereof that is completely surrounded by another.
- A group that is set off from a larger population by its characteristic or behavior.
- An isolated portion of an application's address space, such that data in an enclave can only be accessed by code in the same enclave.
- To enclose within a foreign territory.