The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word FACTORY
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More clues leading to the result FACTORY
- Where you might fabricate truth, or the end of reality
- Show partially deaf actor your works
- Fry, perhaps, cutting his border plant
- Apparently unknown constituent works
- To conduct yourself with love in a Quaker family works
- Works key player to the end of the day
- Plant might be pointy!
- Means of production‘s nothing to cry about
- Kind of crafty admitting love works
- Fine performer sitting on unknown works
Buddy explains!
The straight part
We know that "works" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case works = factory.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does FACTORY mean?
FACTORY noun- A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.
- The position or state of being a factor.
- A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.
- A device which produces or manufactures something.
- A factory farm.
- In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.
- A police station.
- (of a configuration, part, etc.) Having come from the factory in the state it is currently in; original, stock.