The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word MALL
I've seen this crossword clue in The Times
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More clues leading to the result MALL
- Beginning of month: everyone is on parade
- Shopping facility everyone's found by motorway
- Start to make everybody walk
- Young hoodlums finally leaving shopping centre
- Beginning to monitor everyone in shopping precinct
- Everyone supports motorway shopping centre
- Everyone joining start of march from avenue
- . Beginning of the month, everyone is at shopping centre
- Factory is initially removed to make way for a shopping centre
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The straight part
We know that "Shopping facility/or" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case shopping facility/or = mall.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 MALL mean?
MALL noun- A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.
- An enclosed shopping centre.
- An alley where the game of pall mall was played.
- A public walk; a level shaded walk, a promenade.
- A heavy wooden mallet or hammer used in the game of pall mall.
- The game of polo.
- An old game played with malls or mallets and balls; pall mall.
- To beat with a mall, or mallet; to beat with something heavy; to bruise
- To build up with the development of shopping malls
- To shop at the mall