The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word CHECKPOINT
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result CHECKPOINT
- Make sure to indicate border crossing
- European cited purpose in place at frontier?
- Rumour of European objective for border crossing?
- Control station and inspect part of railway
- Charlie’s one part of frontier?
- Examination site where those with correct papers may pass
- Charlie perhaps reported Eastern European issue
- Security measure has purpose after attack on board
- Report of European corporation gathering in place at international border?
- European broadcast on aim for border crossing
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The straight part
We know that "border crossing" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case border crossing = checkpoint.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 CHECKPOINT mean?
CHECKPOINT noun- A point or place where a check is performed, especially a point along a road or on a frontier where travellers are stopped for inspection
- A situation, often represented by a point in time, at which the state of a database system is known to be valid, and to which it can be returned in the event of a crisis by using a combination of backups and logs; the data stored at this event.
- A predetermined point in a map, level or scenario that the player may resume from if they die or restart from if they choose to.
- To set a checkpoint.