The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word FENCES
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More clues leading to the result FENCES
- Civil engineer in Slough’s making barriers
- New clubs split costs for professional security measures
- North Carolina stopping money for criminals
- Receivers should not be sat on too long
- Guards criminals
- Good ones make good neighbours, according to Robert Frost
- Iron, occasionally nicked, sold firstly to them?
- Swordsmen wanting right forms of protection
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The straight part
We know that "Guards/criminals" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case guards/criminals = fences.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 FENCES mean?
FENCES noun- A thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or a house perimeter.
- Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods.
- Skill in oral debate.
- The art or practice of fencing.
- A guard or guide on machinery.
- A barrier, for example an emotional barrier.
- A memory barrier.
- To enclose, contain or separate by building fence.
- To defend or guard.
- To engage in the selling or buying of stolen goods.
- To engage in the sport of fencing.
- To jump over a fence.
- To conceal the truth by giving equivocal answers; to hedge; to be evasive.