The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word INTERVAL
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More clues leading to the result INTERVAL
- Favoured travel abroad in break
- Break travel in resort
- Break in travel for refreshment
- Break in travel at sea
- In their oddly endless hollow time
- Space travel abandoned after popular start
- Space travel in strange contrivance
- Very reliant on shifting break
- Space travel in novel form
- Time between being at home and travel abroad
Buddy explains!
The straight part
We know that "time" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case time = interval.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 INTERVAL mean?
INTERVAL noun- A distance in space.
- A period of time.
- The difference (a ratio or logarithmic measure) in pitch between two notes, often referring to those two pitches themselves (otherwise known as a dyad).
- A connected section of the real line which may be empty or have a length of zero.
- An intermission.
- Half time, a scheduled intermission between the periods of play
- Either of the two breaks, at lunch and tea, between the three sessions of a day's play