The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word WIDE
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More clues leading to the result WIDE
- Large diamonds missing from a wedding ring after repairs
- We aligned with movement taking broader views
- Discuss the reason it's coloured green
- . Delivery that must be repeated with fish
- Extra papers in the Guardian
- Extra roomy
- Extra fish got by wife
- Broad‘s poor delivery?
- Forward-looking contributor to a big shot?
- One day in three-and-a-half days is ample
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The straight part
We know that "Large" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case large = wide.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 WIDE mean?
WIDE noun- A ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal used by an umpire to signal a wide; the extra run added to the batting side's score
- Having a large physical extent from side to side.
- Large in scope.
- Operating at the side of the playing area.
- On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
- Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.
- (now rare) Vast, great in extent, extensive.
- Located some distance away; distant, far.
- Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.
- Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.
- Extensively
- Completely
- Away from a given goal
- So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.