The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word INSIDE
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More clues leading to the result INSIDE
- Like a prisoner as part of a team
- Home team's content
- Ruling party's close to centre
- Fashionable team doing time
- Content to have been sent down?
- With the label showing, maybe, in great detail?
- Home team’s secret
- One inventor about to give away organisation’s principal secret
- Batting team being held
- Secret that is about new heads of state in Denmark
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The straight part
We know that "doing time" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case doing time = inside.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 INSIDE mean?
INSIDE noun- The interior or inner part.
- The left-hand side of a road if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right.
- The side of a curved road, racetrack etc. that has the shorter arc length; the side of a racetrack nearer the interior of the course or some other point of reference.
- (in the plural) The interior organs of the body, especially the guts.
- A passenger within a coach or carriage, as distinguished from one upon the outside.
- Of or pertaining to the inner surface, limit or boundary.
- Nearer to the interior or centre of something.
- Originating from, arranged by, or being someone inside an organisation.
- (of a person) Legally married to or related to (e.g. born in wedlock to), and/or residing with, a specified other person (parent, child, or partner); (of a marriage, relationship, etc) existing between two such people.
- (of a pitch) Toward the batter as it crosses home plate.
- At or towards or the left-hand side of the road if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right.
- Within or towards the interior of something; within the scope or limits of something (a place), especially a building.
- Indoors.
- Intimately, secretly; without expressing what one is feeling or thinking.
- Within the interior of something, closest to the center or to a specific point of reference.
- Within a period of time.