The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 plus 6 letter word DAMP COURSE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result DAMP COURSE
- Unexpectedly produces fences in the morning for building protection
- Around a month produces reworked section of wall
- Some housing benefit? And soup?
- No firm going to produce resistant wall feature?
- Check Penny’s lessons in home protection
- A crude mop’s deployed — that stops water rising
- Ma produces new device to keep house dry
- Armed cops patrolling around university, offering protection for building
- A crude mop’s possibly the answer to water in the house
- Mother means to hold firm, providing protection for the home
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The straight part
We know that "device to keep house dry" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case device to keep house dry = damp course.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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