The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word PAROCHIAL
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More clues leading to the result PAROCHIAL
- Narrow glass container, mostly pink around interior
- Provincial caliph or a replacement?
- Restricted area with monstrous bird in bottle
- “Narrow-minded and racial” leaders of Houses of Parliament must change
- Bottle, receiving a shake, mostly narrow
- Friend introducing a baroque choir with limited range
- Get bottle to hug a fabulous bird of limited scope
- Narrow medicine bottle attracts a boy, adversely
- Confined a fabulous bird in glass case
- Narrow-minded friend grabs choir in straits
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The straight part
We know that "Provincial" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case provincial = parochial.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 PAROCHIAL mean?
PAROCHIAL adjective- Pertaining to a parish.
- Characterized by an unsophisticated focus on local concerns to the exclusion of wider contexts; elementary in scope or outlook.