The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word INFERNO
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result INFERNO
- Conclude negative vote's a disaster
- Conclude nothing can get to grips with northern hell
- Deduce nitric oxide produces large fire
- Conclude working in retirement is hell
- Place of horror? Conclude the answer is negative
- Big fire I observed primarily consuming northern plant
- One may rage, having to assume refusal
- Fire or non-fire, possibly
- Fire out of control? Suppose not
- Fire raging with no end of destruction?
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What does INFERNO mean?
INFERNO noun- A place or situation resembling Hell.
- A large fire, a conflagration.