Cryptic crossword clue
Sets of keys in locks arrangement?

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word BUNCHES

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The straight part
We know that "Sets of keys/locks arrangement?" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case sets of keys/locks arrangement? = bunches.
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What does BUNCHES mean?

BUNCHES noun
  1. A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
  2. The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
  3. An informal body of friends.
  4. A considerable amount.
  5. An unmentioned amount; a number.
  6. A group of logs tied together for skidding.
  7. An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
  8. The reserve yarn on the filling bobbin to allow continuous weaving between the time of indication from the midget feeler until a new bobbin is put in the shuttle.
  9. An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.
  10. A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
BUNCHES verb
  1. To gather into a bunch.
  2. To gather fabric into folds.
  3. To form a bunch.
  4. To be gathered together in folds
  5. To protrude or swell
BUNCHES noun
  1. Hair gathered together in two or more parts; pigtails.

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