The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word ANGULAR
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More clues leading to the result ANGULAR
- Bony Arab, nursing a lung disorder
- Bony with a collapsed lung and a touch of rheumatism
- Bony, a maltreated langur
- Pointed at badly run gala
- Having spaces between planes spare
- A lot of fear about unusual gun that’s stiff
- By no means resembling a rounded character
- A langur becomes thin
- Thin — to a certain degree
- Sort of personality a langur presents
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The straight part
We know that "Pointed" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case pointed = angular.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does ANGULAR mean?
ANGULAR noun- A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, and fishes.
- Relating or pertaining to an angle or angles.
- Having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner
- Sharp-cornered; pointed.
- Measured by an angle.
- Lean, lank.
- Ungraceful; lacking grace.
- Sharp and stiff in character.
- Composed of three or more rings attached to a single carbon atom (the rings not all being in the same plane).