The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word KENNEL
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More clues leading to the result KENNEL
- We hear boy’s going to a best friend’s place
- Quarters in bottom of boat where dog sleeps
- Boys back-to-back in the doghouse
- Boat brings in news where setter lives
- Place for boxer perhaps in ring endlessly occupied by extremes of exertion
- Navy twice entering part of ship where animals are kept
- Man meets another returning home for dog
- Man and another taken around his best friend’s house?
- Shelter any number repeatedly in part of boat
- … her boyfriend Len over in the doghouse
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The straight part
We know that "Place for boxer perhaps" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case place for boxer perhaps = kennel.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does KENNEL mean?
KENNEL noun- A house or shelter for a dog.
- A facility at which dogs are reared or boarded.
- (collective) The dogs kept at such a facility; a pack of hounds.
- The hole of a fox or other animal.
- To house or board a dog (or less commonly another animal).
- To lie or lodge; to dwell, as a dog or a fox.
- To drive (a fox) to covert in its hole.
- The gutter at the edge of a street; a surface drain.
- A puddle.