The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word DIAGRAM
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More clues leading to the result DIAGRAM
- Not too bright about location of Taj Mahal? Here’s a plan
- Drawing assistance from the East, a very small amount
- Spoil good welfare, having reversed plan
- Indian city taken in by ill-defined plan
- Outline you need help to lift weight
- Indian city captured in poorly lit picture
- Plan 24 hours in Ibiza? Good stuff!
- Taj Mahal’s setting captured in simple drawing
- Plan produced by heartless, beastly mother, confiscating sex rejuvenator, “very lacking”
- Figure needing support about weight
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The straight part
We know that "Drawing" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case drawing = diagram.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does DIAGRAM mean?
DIAGRAM noun- A plan, drawing, sketch or outline to show how something works, or show the relationships between the parts of a whole.
- A graph or chart.
- A functor from an index category to another category. The objects and morphisms of the index category need not have any internal substance, but rather merely outline the connective structure of at least some part of the diagram's codomain. If the index category is J and the codomain is C, then the diagram is said to be "of type J in C".
- To represent or indicate something using a diagram.
- To schedule the operations of a locomotive or train according to a diagram.