The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word TACTILE
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More clues leading to the result TACTILE
- Feeling retired priest is behind diplomacy
- Feeling section of opera perhaps must cut slab
- Touching performance, dressed in hat
- Perform wearing hat, being touchy?
- Wearing old hat, perform material
- Reportedly what a roofer may do that’s perceptible by touch
- Performance in hat likely to touch people
- New 2, pleasant to touch
- Touchy feline climbing on bit of roof
- Cream, mostly, and fan thereof, turning touchy
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The straight part
We know that "Feeling" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case feeling = tactile.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 TACTILE mean?
TACTILE adjective- Tangible; perceptible to the sense of touch.
- Used for feeling.
- Of or relating to the sense of touch.