The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 plus 3 letter word CASPIAN SEA
I've seen this crossword clue in The Times
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More clues leading to the result CASPIAN SEA
- Water recycled as in space, prime requirement for astronauts
- Rearrange a space as in inland lake
- Panic as drunken European interrupts odd bits of Swan Lake
- Body of water, fluid Asian 2?
- Cape Asian’s remapped discovering this sea
- Asians pace about large water body
- Manoeuvre as in space over a water body
- Free space, as in a large body of water
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The straight part
We know that "inland lake" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case inland lake = caspian sea.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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