The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word DIVIDED
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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The straight part
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What does DIVIDED mean?
DIVIDED verb- To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
- To share (something) by dividing it.
- (with by) To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend).
- To be a divisor of.
- To separate into two or more parts.
- Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.
- To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
- To break friendship; to fall out.
- To have a share; to partake.
- To vote, as in the British parliament and other legislatures, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the noes.
- To mark divisions on; to graduate.
- To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
- Separated or split into pieces
- Having conflicting interests or emotions
- Disunited
- (of a road) separated into lanes, that move in opposite directions, by a median