The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word IMMENSE
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More clues leading to the result IMMENSE
- Very big chaps breaking into dilapidated semi
- Tremendous chaps in fantastic Times putting out leader
- Huge – a tenth of a centimetre seen differently
- Jumbo the setter’s set mostly to trap people
- Enormous Frenchmen plunged into tempestuous Seine
- Huge mines exploding around me
- Hoskins is who I am! One ghastly twerp essentially without limits!
- Giant that is guarding thousand people, foremost in story
- Tremendous, when single chaps embrace married state’s limits
- Extinct at last, my nemesis, woolly mammoth
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The straight part
We know that "mammoth" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case mammoth = immense.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does IMMENSE mean?
IMMENSE noun- Immense extent or expanse; immensity
- Huge, gigantic, very large.
- Supremely good.