The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 plus 3 plus 2 plus 1 plus 4 letter word THREE MEN IN A BOAT
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More clues leading to the result THREE MEN IN A BOAT
- Funny story, flailing a baton after agitato? Me neither
- Name beneath trio cast adrift?
- Book title that’s a cryptic hint to get agent male fellowship?
- Coxed pair booked?
- Warning about bone I name wrongly in humorous story
- Book crew of 4, 1 down?
- Mistakenly be inane about the setter during passage in book
- Novel — coxed pair perhaps?
- Novel representation of a Royal deanship?
- Translated another ‘ambient’ European novel
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The straight part
We know that "book" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case book = three men in a boat.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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