The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word TAHOE
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More clues leading to the result TAHOE
- Busy with pulling up weed in lake
- Old boater maybe capsizes on English lake
- Nameless brown weed in US lake
- Time to have a laugh on European lake
- Divers he’s taking to a lake resort
- Lake in middle of Cheltenham enveloping a house
- Lake resort near Spain – it’s lovely visiting
- Lake leads to a healthy outside existence
- A house in time I’m missing – and lake
- Lake duck stops generating heat
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The straight part
We know that "Lake resort" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case lake resort = tahoe.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.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.