The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word STREET
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result STREET
- Component of avenue, say, is seen in stone road
- Setter barking shows the way
- In London, Oxford or Liverpool, say
- Setter wandering in the road?
- Unopened letters scattered about the homeless?
- Way Hazel, say, squeezed into scooped skirt
- Plant blocking extremely smart thoroughfare
- In this way, soprano leaves producer tense
- One of 1 across’s subjects walks in this way
- Way a good sort nurses Rowan, perhaps
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The straight part
We know that "place" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case place = street.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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What does STREET mean?
STREET noun- A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.
- A road as above but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.
- The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.
- The people who spend a great deal of time on the street in urban areas, especially, the young, the poor, the unemployed, and those engaged in illegal activities.
- An illicit or contraband source, especially of drugs.
- Streetwise slang.
- A great distance.
- Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.
- Living in the streets.
- (urban toponymy) By restriction, the streets that run perpendicular to avenues.
- To build or equip with streets.
- To eject; to throw onto the streets.
- (by extension) To heavily defeat.
- To go on sale.
- To proselytize in public.
- Having street cred; conforming to modern urban trends.