The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word STEEPEST
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More clues leading to the result STEEPEST
- Most expensive ways to hold sword up
- Play double set to capture record? That’s most expensive
- Most expensive cases of Sekt ease pain
- Most costly sword picked up between two streets
- Most costly stones cut by revolutionary blade
- See step broken on end of flight most difficult to climb
- Most extreme bother on small driving area
- Most extreme leader in some bother gathering support
- Road engineer’s trial is most expensive
- Model in court facing trial is most unreasonable
Buddy explains!
The straight part
We know that "most expensive" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case most expensive = steepest.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 STEEPEST mean?
STEEPEST adjective- Of a near-vertical gradient; of a slope, surface, curve, etc. that proceeds upward at an angle near vertical.
- Expensive
- Difficult to access; not easy reached; lofty; elevated; high.
- (of the rake of a ship's mast, or a car's windshield) resulting in a mast or windshield angle that strongly diverges from the perpendicular