The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word EYEBROW
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More clues leading to the result EYEBROW
- Look at little brother heading to wash sweatband?
- Intellectual Cockney said to be sort of arch
- Heard on EastEnders, very cultural feature
- English bishop plugging the old argument — it may be raised
- Feature ’ackney intellectual overheard
- Strange bore in river rising - it does so at surprising times
- Watch British quarrel that’s curiously raised?
- Heading for execution, relative hiding in tree – that’s hairy!
- Feature Cockney intellectual overheard
- This might be raised in surprise report of London’s elite
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The straight part
We know that "it may be raised" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case it may be raised = eyebrow.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does EYEBROW mean?
EYEBROW noun- The hair that grows over the bone ridge above the eye socket.
- A dormer, usually of small size, whose roof line over the upright face is typically an arched curve, turning into a reverse curve to meet the horizontal line at either end.
- A clump of waste fibres that builds up in a roller machine.
- To build up waste fibres in a roller machine.
- To signal with one's eyebrows.