The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word GRAVEYARD
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More clues leading to the result GRAVEYARD
- Pull up outside a very ramshackle place whose occupants have departed
- German party takes horse-drawn cart up to cemetery
- Serious distance to one’s final destination
- Sauce packed with energy fnding a way to fnal destination
- Weighty beam needed for necropolis
- Weighty cart, having been jacked up, remains here
- Finding bodies here is serious, for the police
- Significant distance to one's last stop
- Night shift is a drag - very maligned
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The straight part
We know that "place whose occupants have departed" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case place whose occupants have departed = graveyard.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 GRAVEYARD mean?
GRAVEYARD noun- A tract of land in which the dead are buried.
- (by extension) A final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable.