The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word MERIDIAN
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More clues leading to the result MERIDIAN
- Intend to keep free one noon
- Midday on the Circle line?
- Peak in clear — one near borders
- The setter’s clear on Botham perhaps — the top!
- Clear to be adopted by middle line
- Global ring linking Middle East, central America and India broken up
- Big circle established by fellow, including Queen and dictator
- Iron Maiden, drunk, missing on Circle Line!
- . Catastrophic upset breaks drunk Mani at the summit
- Aid miner haphazardly from surface line running between poles
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The straight part
We know that "Midday/Circle line" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case midday/circle line = meridian.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does MERIDIAN mean?
MERIDIAN noun- The south.
- Midday, noon.
- A great circle passing through the poles of the celestial sphere and the zenith for a particular point on the earth's surface.
- An imaginary great circle on the Earth's surface, passing through the geographic poles, or that half of such a circle extending from pole to pole, all points of which have the same longitude.
- The highest or most developed point of something; culmination, splendour.
- A particular area or situation considered as having a specific identity or characteristic; the tastes or habits of a specific locale, group etc.
- The middle period of someone's life, when they are at full strength or abilities; one's prime.
- A line passing through the poles of any sphere; a notional line on the surface of a round or curved body.
- A dram drunk at midday.
- (acupuncture) Any of the pathways on the body along which the vital energy is thought to flow and, therefore, the acupoints are distributed.
- The size of type between double great primer and canon, standardized as 44-point.
- Meridional; relating to a meridian.
- Relating to noon
- Relating to the highest point or culmination.