The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word TARSUS
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More clues leading to the result TARSUS
- Sailors coming to American city where saint was born
- Arrangement of bones makes us look bad?
- Sailors coming to American saint's home city
- Bones and Sulu, only half accepted by the ship’s crew?
- Bones of rodent served up by half-cut wife
- Topless celebs overlooking American city of St Paul
- Seaman’s sources of unusually strong bones
- Sailors, American, pointing to a group of small bones
- Qatar suspected to be hiding bones
- American sailor’s first bone
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The straight part
We know that "city where saint was born" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case city where saint was born = tarsus.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does TARSUS mean?
TARSUS noun- The part of the foot between the tibia and fibula and the metatarsus.
- Any of the seven bones in this part of the foot.
- A plate of dense connective tissue found in each eyelid, attached to either the superior tarsal muscle (in the upper eyelid) or inferior tarsal muscle (lower eyelid), which aid with sympathetic control.
- In insects and other arthropods, any of a series of articulations in the true foot; the last joint forming the foot in spiders.