The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 plus 3 letter word HOOVER DAM
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result HOOVER DAM
- To use household appliance, mother finds great power source
- Clean off one’s rocker back in Nevada
- Wall of Jericho over damp-course
- House on very short section of US boundary
- Does it hold water, appearing to suck up to mother?
- Cleaner out to lunch rejected liquid restraint
- Do housework, annoyed about current obstruction
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