The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 plus 6 letter word SHOPPING CENTRE
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More clues leading to the result SHOPPING CENTRE
- A place for people to give hoods away in the mall?
- It’s bustling at weekend, yet implicitly very quiet
- One place to buy two pianos?
- Excited, gents in chopper leaving mall
- Focus of betrayal for retailers
- Retail location providing criminal information on rugby player
- Mall that provides double parking?
- Commercial building that could be very quiet?
- It implies very quiet place to buy lots
Buddy explains!
The straight part
We know that "Retail location" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case retail location = shopping centre.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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