The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word DECAMP
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More clues leading to the result DECAMP
- Leave on Christmas morning, possibly with papa
- Leave city in protection of attorney and politician
- Poisonous gas envelops City district — get out fast
- Abscond from city in moist air
- Leave, as a drag queen might do after a gig?
- Leave European Community, breaking restraint on power
- Take off TV presenter and a rejected May
- Mum returns quietly after month in Split
- Leave the City in the wet
- Walked northwards to conceal beginning of moonlight flit
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The straight part
We know that "Leave" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case leave = decamp.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does DECAMP mean?
DECAMP verb- To break up camp and move on.
- To disappear suddenly and secretly.