The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word BASIN
I've seen this crossword clue in Independent
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More clues leading to the result BASIN
- Odd bits of boat found on wrong coastal feature
- Bowl bishop when batting
- Graduate’s home sink
- Pudding bowl, as found in rubbish receptacle
- Bowl first of bumpers when at home
- North of Indiana boats regularly sink
- Initially blue, in the sense of depression
- Bowl balls without line and length at crease?
- Hollow bishop with a thing to be confessed?
- Sailor came up to wrong dock
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The straight part
We know that "depression" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case depression = basin.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 BASIN mean?
BASIN noun- A wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall
- A shallow bowl used for a single serving of a drink or liquidy food
- A depression, natural or artificial, containing water
- An area of land from which water drains into a common outlet; drainage basin
- A rock formation scooped out by water erosion
- To create a concavity or depression in.
- To serve as or become a basin.
- To shelter or enclose in a basin.