The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word STANZA
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More clues leading to the result STANZA
- Mr Laurel's recited a bit of verse
- Verse and German dance boring French company
- Way Australian or New Zealander cut lines
- Lines held by last Anzacs
- Part of poem and German dance in S Africa
- Some lines beat Zulu in South Africa
- Ollie’s partner’s recited a piece of poetry
- Sounds like Laurel’s averse
- Tarzan’s not right to swing these lines
- Something Kipling wrote to some extent describes Tanzania
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What does STANZA mean?
STANZA noun- A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse.
- An apartment or division in a building.
- An XML element which acts as basic unit of meaning in XMPP.
- A segment; a portion of a broadcast devoted to a particular topic.
- A period; an interval into which a sporting event is divided.