The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word LANDLORDS
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result LANDLORDS
- Letters descend on crickets’s HQ
- Letters to acquire at cricket ground
- Innkeepers in line as well as noblemen
- Letters secure cricket venue
- Letters left with house in Westminster
- Peers in support of country letters of property
- Letters in ground by house in Westminster
- Ground and house might be theirs
- Turn over envelopes with dead son's letters
- Letters descend on Westminster house
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What does LANDLORDS mean?
LANDLORDS noun- A person who owns and rents land such as a house, apartment, or condo.
- The owner or manager of a public house.
- (with "the") A shark, imagined as the owner of the surf to be avoided.