The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word BIRDCAGE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Sunday Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result BIRDCAGE
- Where a flyer may go for a walk in London?
- After time, about to be knocking on creature's home
- Accommodation for Swift in prison? About time!
- Its bars restrict the range of singers, as one composer said to another
- Polly’s home perhaps in Cambridge – sadly lacking room for male
- Timein enclosure like each other across answer?
- Old composer heard, then modern one, in arrangement of bars for singer
- Singer’s home in Cambridge, adaptable with no end of room
- Singers are barred in it
- Time to lock up for a walk in London
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The straight part
We know that "arrangement of bars for singer" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case arrangement of bars for singer = birdcage.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 BIRDCAGE mean?
BIRDCAGE noun- A cage to keep pet or zoological specimen birds in.
- A game of chance played with dice; chuck-a-luck.