The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word IRIDESCENT
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result IRIDESCENT
- Current cycle trail, scintillating
- Hibernian ancestry second husband denied, getting shot!
- One clear trail skirting edge of mirage, shimmering
- One looking into Irish ancestry gets shot
- Madly indiscreet and sparkling
- Everyman on cycling trip with odour, glimmering
- I travel beside trail filled with colour
- Indiscreet novel, extraordinarily colourful
- Colourful flag, slightly depleted stock
- Glistening, I smell after travel
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What does IRIDESCENT mean?
IRIDESCENT adjective- Producing a display of lustrous, rainbow-like colors; prismatic.
- Brilliant, lustrous, or colorful.