The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word SOMERSET
I've seen this crossword clue in Independent
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More clues leading to the result SOMERSET
- Bath here: impressive soak, inhaling sulphur
- When it's warmest, we hear, group will follow cricketers
- A rolling county
- County cricket season reportedly prepared
- See storm smashing county
- A number of people run television for a county
- English county Republican place, little bit to the left
- Part of UK having considerable border finally arranged
- Cricketers in their season, we hear, ready to begin
- County not all respect, oddly
Buddy explains!
The straight part
We know that "Part of UK" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case part of uk = somerset.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.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.