The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word SPECTACLES
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More clues leading to the result SPECTACLES
- Pageants look better when they're on
- Accept less rum in glasses
- A better means of seeing the sights
- Exhibitions, ones that impart finer vision
- Things to see – or to see with?
- Spot when king leaves castle — fantastic things worth looking at
- What might make us see better shows?
- Shows conjecture on a divided Newcastle?
- These shows that I’m playing could be Test Match Special
- Oddly, almost accepts less for shows
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The straight part
We know that "Shows" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case shows = spectacles.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does SPECTACLES mean?
SPECTACLES noun- Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
- Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship.
- Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only, except in some technical contexts)
- A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.
- A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.
- A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match.
- A double play, two outs recorded in one play.
- A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams
- A boat for two sweep rowers.
- A pair of breasts
- The exclusion of one member of a parliamentary party from a vote, if a member of the other party is absent for important personal reasons.
- Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time.
- A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set.
- (kinematics) In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion; named in accordance with the motion it permits, as in turning pair, sliding pair, twisting pair.
- An exciting or extraordinary scene, exhibition, performance etc.
- An embarrassing or unedifying scene or situation.
- (usually in the plural) An optical instrument consisting of two lenses set in a light frame, and worn to assist sight, to obviate some defect in the organs of vision, or to shield the eyes from bright light.
- An aid to the intellectual sight.
- A spyglass; a looking-glass.
- The brille of a snake.
- A frame with different coloured lenses on a semaphore signal through which light from a lamp shines at night, often a part of the signal arm.
- A pair of lenses set in a frame worn on the nose and ears in order to correct deficiencies in eyesight or to ornament the face.