The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word HAUNT
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More clues leading to the result HAUNT
- Search outside a favourite location?
- Chase round area as ghosts do
- Answer found in search for plague
- Frequent hard worker steals uniform
- Pack of dogs carrying a plague
- Husband gets mum’s sister in trouble
- Chase around a favourite resort
- Jeremy or Tristram possessing a tendency to visit repeatedly
- Seek to secure a visit
- Run down outside a place regularly visited
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The straight part
We know that "favourite location?" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case favourite location? = haunt.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 HAUNT mean?
HAUNT noun- A place at which one is regularly found; a habitation or hangout.
- A ghost.
- A feeding place for animals.
- To inhabit, or visit frequently (most often used in reference to ghosts).
- To make uneasy, restless.
- To stalk, to follow
- To live habitually; to stay, to remain.
- To accustom; habituate; make accustomed to.
- To practise; to devote oneself to.
- To persist in staying or visiting.