The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word EPISODES
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result EPISODES
- Spells “musical passages”
- Eastern spies do overcome incidents
- Attacks pies, does badly
- Pies thrown prior to poetry events
- Record one’s poems in instalments
- Ed's poise lost in chapters of a serial
- Despise novel containing zero chapters
- Records broken by international poetry events
- Record poems describing one’s events
Buddy explains!
The straight part
We know that "incidents" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case incidents = episodes.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.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.
What does EPISODES mean?
EPISODES noun- An incident, action, or time period standing out by itself, but more or less connected with a complete series of events.
- An instalment of a drama told in parts, as in a TV series.