The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word CHEQUERS
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result CHEQUERS
- The sound of people policing PM's residence
- Draughts in our leader’s country pile?
- Redesign secure HQ where the PM stays sometimes
- Gothic country mansion with draughts
- Game seen at PM’s residence
- Draughts in country house retreat
- Country house provides toast, without question
- With Her Majesty intervening, is applauding Boris’s retreat
- Report of people scrutinising country residence
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The straight part
We know that "Game/PM’s residence" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case game/pm’s residence = chequers.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 CHEQUERS mean?
CHEQUERS noun- One who checks or verifies something.
- One who makes a check mark.
- The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment.
- One who hinders or stops something.
- A playing piece in the game of checkers (British: draughts).
- A pattern of alternating colours as on a chessboard.
- The fruit of the wild service tree or chequer tree, Photinia villosa, syn. Sorbus terminalis
- The edible fruit of the wild service tree, Sorbus torminalis.