The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word ACRES
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result ACRES
- One's crossing river to see lots of territory?
- . I’m told they might long for loads of space
- Loads of room in a short top
- … landed estates, as housing credit halved
- Is concerned moving about fields?
- Camcorders even used in large estates
- Lots of winners accepting silver finally
- One’s trapping in river areas
- Estate suffers when rule is used to oust husband
- Extent of farmland possibly yielding a green plant mostly
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The straight part
We know that "Load/s/ of room" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case load/s/ of room = acres.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does ACRES mean?
ACRES noun- An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's plowing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square meters.
- Any of various similar units of area in other systems.
- (usually in the plural) A wide expanse.
- (usually in the plural) A large quantity.
- A field.
- The acre's breadth by the length, English units of length equal to the statute dimensions of the acre: 22 yds (≈20 m) by 220 yds (≈200 m).
- A duel fought between individual Scots and Englishmen in the borderlands.