The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word UNIVERSITY
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result UNIVERSITY
- One short poem penned by a Mitford in Cambridge?
- In it, survey foreign body of intelligence?
- Reading, perhaps, in survey it must develop
- Randomly survey it in place of study
- One holding a silver buckle for completeness
- Consensus about endlessly diverse supplier of education
- Seat of learning developing virtues in youth primarily
- Seat at 24, for instance
- Academic institution found shortly in middle of suburbs
- 1 of 19, unfinished creation, it’s taken years
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The straight part
We know that "Seat of learning" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case seat of learning = university.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does UNIVERSITY mean?
UNIVERSITY noun- Institution of higher education (typically accepting students from the age of about 17 or 18, depending on country, but in some exceptional cases able to take younger students) where subjects are studied and researched in depth and degrees are offered.