The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word TEMPLE
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More clues leading to the result TEMPLE
- Meet eccentric around place or house of worship
- Worker from agency with the French church
- Part of head office could be here
- Church in delicate place?
- Where to worship American actress
- One working for time at extremely large place of worship
- Vulnerable spot for actor, b. ’28
- Bit of a head obtainable in bar area of London
- Church ABC
- Holy place that may throb with intense activity
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The straight part
We know that "Part of head/office could be here" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case part of head/office could be here = temple.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does TEMPLE mean?
TEMPLE noun- A house of worship, especially:
- A meeting house of the Oddfellows fraternity; its members.
- Any place regarded as holding a religious presence.
- Any place seen as an important centre for some activity.
- Anything regarded as important or minutely cared for.
- A gesture wherein the forefingers are outstretched and touch pad to pad while the other fingers are clasped together.
- To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; to temple a god
- The slightly flatter region, on either side of the human head, behind of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch, and forward of the ear.
- Either of the sidepieces on a set of spectacles, extending backwards from the hinge toward the ears and, usually, turning down around them.
- A contrivance used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.