The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 12 letter word CONVENTIONAL
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More clues leading to the result CONVENTIONAL
- Established religious community on site of monastery overlooking loch
- Established nunnery left on Hebridean island
- Orthodox religious community on Iona left
- Established nunnery on Hebridean island, then left
- Customary for a religious community on this island at the start of Lent
- Sisters’ place with a lino designed to be boring?
- Customary assembly with a learner
- Mainstream religious house on holy island by lake
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The straight part
We know that "Established" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case established = conventional.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does CONVENTIONAL mean?
CONVENTIONAL noun- A conventional gilt-edged security, a kind of bond paying the holder a fixed cash payment (or coupon) every six months until maturity, at which point the holder receives the final payment and the return of the principal.
- Pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour.
- Ordinary, commonplace.
- Banal, trite, hackneyed, unoriginal or clichéd.
- Pertaining to a weapon which is not a weapon of mass destruction.
- Making use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.
- In accordance with a bidding convention, as opposed to a natural bid.