The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word HECTARE
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More clues leading to the result HECTARE
- Some land replacing the acre
- Land measured out in the race
- Cat roaming in this place will cover quite an area
- … cheater is beaten – ha!
- Terrible cheat to get about 10,000 square metres
- Charlie hides in funny tree, ha ha
- Amount of land at this point keeping to Reform Act?
- Measure of land close to allotment in concern for men?
- Unit of area the acre represented
- Land of the free teacher?
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The straight part
We know that "Land measured" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case land measured = hectare.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does HECTARE mean?
HECTARE noun- A unit of surface area (symbol ha) equal to 100 ares (that is, 10,000 square metres, one hundredth of a square kilometre, or approximately 2.5 acres), used for measuring the areas of geographical features such as land and bodies of water.