The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word PERMAFROST
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More clues leading to the result PERMAFROST
- Farmers opt mistakenly for unsuitable agricultural terrain
- What’s always very cool way to follow hairstyles
- Top farmers cultivated polar ground
- Sort of ground farmers opt to change
- ‘Curly Locks, Curly Locks’, street rime?
- One hairstyle after another — on the street that’s exceptionally cool
- Two big hairstyles on street feature up North
- Layer of soil pot farmers mixed
- Frozen ground ruined farmer's pot
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The straight part
We know that "unsuitable agricultural terrain" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case unsuitable agricultural terrain = permafrost.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 PERMAFROST mean?
PERMAFROST noun- Permanently frozen ground, or a specific layer thereof.