The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word NASH
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
N
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S
H
More clues leading to the result NASH
- Architect and town planner set up two hospitals
- Pavilion ultimately remains — his design?
- Architect or poet from Northwood
- Remains a follower of northern poet
- Partial to pavilion, as Hanoverian architect
- Dandy Nichols’s first husband swallowing arsenic
- Dandy heard to grind his teeth
- Architect‘s name written on wood
- Architect establishing name with a second hospital
- American poet‘s name with no apostrophe S, hyphenated originally
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The straight part
We know that "Dandy" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case dandy = nash.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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