The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word NURSERY
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More clues leading to the result NURSERY
- Place for cuttings developed in Surrey newsroom primarily
- Place for young and old train staff: Home Counties line?
- Run over on regular basis, see army’s place for young
- Area for development certainly managed to turn around with right investment
- New expedition from east of London to secure Kentish garden centre?
- Place or race for two-year olds
- Sister rarely losing heart in growing place
- North Surrey dancing establishment for infants
- Creche in North Surrey moved
- Business with small charges, or one that caters for growing needs
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What does NURSERY mean?
NURSERY noun- A place where nursing or the raising of children is carried on.
- A place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.
- Something which educates and nurtures.
- Short for nursery cannon.
- Someone or something that is nursed; a nursling.
- The act of nursing or rearing.