The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word GAGARIN
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More clues leading to the result GAGARIN
- Keen to call short cosmonaut
- Out of this world Soviet jelly dipped in alcohol
- Pioneering Russian paper set up in advance
- Long-distance traveller’s advantage – importing paper on return
- Noted Soviet from Georgia represented in rag
- In spirit, the stuff feeding culture for an adventurer
- Cosmonaut runs into acceleration due to gravity once more
- Traveller in new enterprise wildly enthusiastic, one recruited by the navy
- High-flier from Russia or Georgia with mobile I rang
- Old space traveller encounters gravity, runs in again
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The straight part
We know that "Old space traveller" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case old space traveller = gagarin.The cryptic/wordplay part
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