The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word ISLAND
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More clues leading to the result ISLAND
- Man maybe is joined by boy around November
- Detached territory, one with seaside feature spanning lake
- Move inch by inch?
- One extremely small and isolated place
- Upright character smooth enrolling student for Easter?
- Man, for example, lives on solid earth
- Isolated feature in the main is secure
- Diesel banned at regular intervals in Greenland?
- One’s secure getting key
- One end of drill breaking stuff found on beach in Corfu, say
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The straight part
We know that "isolated place" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case isolated place = island.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 ISLAND mean?
ISLAND noun- A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, totally surrounded by water.
- An entity surrounded by other entities that are very different from itself.
- A superstructure on an aircraft carrier's deck.
- A traffic island.
- An unincorporated area wholly surrounded by one or more incorporated areas.
- (grammar) A phrase from which a wh-word cannot be extracted without yielding invalid grammar.
- To surround with water; make into an island.
- To set, dot (as if) with islands.
- To isolate.