The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word REMAINS
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More clues leading to the result REMAINS
- What’s left on, the electricity supply?
- What is left of engineers sat on electric supply?
- Continues to be stiff?
- Restraints around old woman? Stays
- Bones for stays
- Organised seminar to present archaeologist’s findings
- Stays behind and engineers gas pipes?
- Dead body is still
- Stays and strap holding old woman securely at first
- Stays part of 4 Across?
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The straight part
We know that "Dead body/is still" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case dead body/is still = remains.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does REMAINS mean?
REMAINS noun- (chiefly in the plural) That which is left; relic; remainder.
- (in the plural) That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.
- Posthumous works or productions, especially literary works.
- State of remaining; stay.
- To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.
- To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
- To await; to be left to.
- To continue in a state of being.
- What is left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse.
- Historical or archaeological relics.
- The extant writings of a deceased person.
- All that is left of the stock of some things; remnants.