The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word GLANCED
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result GLANCED
- Had butcher’s gammon’s first cut
- Poking prostate, perhaps, the Church had a look
- Looked at good land around the church
- Looked happy going round new church
- Galahad, disembowelled, claims his weapon took a deflection
- Looked good with weapon on back of steed
- Looked good, area outside church
- Looked happy to go round new church
- Had a quick look needing key cut
- Briefly viewed bigot's heart, opened like a boil
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The straight part
We know that "Looked" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case looked = glanced.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 GLANCED mean?
GLANCED verb- To look briefly (at something).
- To graze a surface.
- To sparkle.
- To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.
- To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside.
- To hit lightly with the head, make a deft header.
- To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; often with at.
- A type of interaction between parent fish and offspring in which juveniles swim toward and rapidly touch the sides of the parent, in most cases feeding on parental mucus. Relatively few species glance, mainly some Cichlidae.