The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word TELEPHOTO
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More clues leading to the result TELEPHOTO
- Lens closed twice, capturing elephant zapping insect
- It’s designed to help to enlarge ultimately
- Travelling to the pole, in need of pap
- The kind of lens to capture worker abandoning pachyderm in toto
- Lens fixed to the pole
- Kind of lens fixed to the pole
- Long-range picture of huge creatureamong musicians of Africa
- Long shot from footballer going over close to netting
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The straight part
We know that "Kind of lens" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case kind of lens = telephoto.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 TELEPHOTO mean?
TELEPHOTO noun- A photograph taken through a telephoto lens.
- Of or pertaining to a lens system used to produce an enlarged image of a distant object.