The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word SEVENTY
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More clues leading to the result SEVENTY
- Old spinner, a septuagenarian?
- Happening to interrupt Shirley’s heartless number
- Number of flat in untidy house?
- Figure something happening in outskirts of Sydney
- Disastrous event – you protect a number
- Record number seeing TV they turned off
- Sound source of entertainment worth both its successors put together
- Still in mess: on top of double one, you need six double sixes!
- 560 old records
- Something spectacular, having got in bash with the old, old spinner
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The straight part
We know that "Number" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case number = seventy.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does SEVENTY mean?
SEVENTY numeral- The cardinal number occurring after sixty-nine and before seventy-one, represented in Roman numerals as LXX and in Arabic numerals as 70.