The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word MEADOW
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More clues leading to the result MEADOW
- Animal cry disturbed by commotion in grassy area
- When horse is gone, cut round top field
- Gerard regularly comes in to cut field
- Field officer’s first wife having a drink
- What could be mowed – a ——!
- Field cut, elk and deer all beginning to enter
- Old wife on booze in field
- Cut grass around the top but not the very top of this?
- Field trip made by old women
- Cat’s cry circulates commotion in grassland area
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The straight part
We know that "this" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case this = meadow.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does MEADOW mean?
MEADOW noun- A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay.
- Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.