The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 plus 4 plus 3 plus 4 letter word GONE WITH THE WIND
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More clues leading to the result GONE WITH THE WIND
- A film to blow you away?
- Reconstruction work? We do it when night falls
- Book to read or film to see, thing we do when it turns nasty
- We don’t weigh thin comic for Hollywood drama
- Seeing film from book, blown away
- Blown away by this film?
- Film broadcast when I wed tonight
- Blockbuster / blown away
- Picture where straw house would be after hurricane?
- Dead from flatulence — that’s novel!
Buddy explains!
The straight part
We know that "novel" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case novel = gone with the wind.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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