The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word TOURNAMENT
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More clues leading to the result TOURNAMENT
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- Handle we use to split explosive open?
- Sunday Times displayed in explosive meeting!
- Title we have secured by explosive series of games
- Do specify books for competition
- What we’re called in explosive contest?
- Guardian’s reputation protected in explosive event
- Boxing chaps turn to a dramatic series of bouts
- Series of matches getting players involved in national contest
- What we get called in explosive contest
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The straight part
We know that "open" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case open = tournament.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does TOURNAMENT mean?
TOURNAMENT noun- During the Middle Ages, a series of battles and other contests designed to prepare knights for war.
- A series of games; either the same game played many times, or a succession of games related by a single theme; played competitively to determine a single winning team or individual.
- A digraph obtained by assigning a direction to each edge in an undirected complete graph.